Special character display issue

Hi,
I've been struggling with this issue for some time now and
have not yet found a solution. Basically I am trying to display the
letter 'á' in bold within a dynamic text field, where the text
is parsed from some internal script.
There is nothing wrong with the script as it works for other
special characters. I have embedded the correct glyphs, and even
tried all glyphs.
I have tried several methods of encoding the character in the
scipt such as Unicode Escape, Numeric Entity and URL encoding; no
luck with either. For other special characters I have simply
embedded the glyph and typed the special character into my script
using the charmap instructions and they have worked fine but for
some reason when I want to make it bold it just wont display. The
method I've used to embolden the text is show below, please note
this has worked fine for other characters and the bold version of
the font contains the glyph in the charmap.
"<font face=\"AvantGarde LT
Bold\">Lávese</font>"
This results in: Lvese (in bold) skipping the á
I'm starting to wonder if this is a problem with the software
itself. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to give them a go.
Thanks in advance for any assistance
P.S. my e-mail is [email protected]

Pl identify which exact version of 10g, along with the database characterset.
Going by what you have stated, your database characterset is most likely WE8ISO8859P1, which does not recognize the single quote (or apostrophe) or the bullet point.
You will need to use a characterset that supports these characters - Oracle recommends AL32UTF8
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14225/ch6unicode.htm
If you can recreate this database, use AL32UTF8 then perform your conversion.
HTH
Srini

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