Some special characters getting replaced by ? in TOAD

Hi,
I am using TOAD for updating a few records in the DB. Some special characters (non-english) like Staříč get replaced by Sta?í? in TOAD. I tried to set the characer set to default and East Europe under Editor Options, but it still doesn't work.
Any suggestions?

i) Verify your DB characterset can handle these characters
ii) Verify that the correct values are being stored (use dump function)
iii) Verify that NLS_CLient settings match NLS_Server settings
iii) Verify that this is not a windows display issue. ie Windows has been set up to display these characters.
One suggestion is to use OracleSQLDeveloper. You won't have any display issues then. :)
I use it to display arabic charcters and I don't need any registry changes etc
Edited by: Keith Jamieson on Dec 8, 2008 10:47 AM

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