Scientic characters not inserting correctly

Hi,
I work with Oracle Clinical 4.0.3 and occasionally have to use 'special' characters such as beta ß. Usually just use a ascii character map and type alt+225 etc.
However, this morning this does not appear to be working. Rather than ß I get SS.
Any ideas.
Many thanks in advance.
Marko.

What is your database character set? What are your client NLS settings? What changed between the last time this worked and today?
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

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