Special characters in 10g dev

I am using 10g dev. I am converting the reports from 6i. I have some values in DB using special characters ie. for deg C (instead of deg i use o ) . now when I display it on PDF it shows as a junk character. How can we solve it. while I was using Oracle 6i this was displaying properly.
Thanks
MG

Hi Con,
For the case of worksheet script, the special characters work fine for me in 3.2.20.09.87. What version are you on?
When running the query from the Reports view, here are a couple of hints
1. In the report's SQL Query definition, use Style: Script, not Table
2. Edit your SQL Query to use bind variables, not substitution variables, like so...
select ' Action:' || :V_PATCH || ' ' || :V_ACTION || chr(10) ||
'Database: '|| instance_name || chr(10) ||
' Date: '||to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI') || chr(10)
from v$instance3. Finally, define them in the Binds section.
Hope this helps,
Gary

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