Problems with special characters in the data.

Hi All,
Whenever, I'm trying to data such as "Lämmerzunge" which are having some special characters in it, it is storing them as L�mmerzunge. Is there anyway to handle these?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Venky

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check client's nls settings.
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