Special Characters Pop Up doesnt work

Hey,
I realized I cannot insert any special characters since when i hit edit - special characters in any program, no pop-up is showing up...
What can I do except re-installing since the macbook is only 4 weeks or so old

See this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1257002&tstart=50

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Recently Mail hasn't been able to get/send mail from my yahoo account. It has worked in the past, and I checked to make sure I still have Yahoo Mail Plus (which I do)
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I have a problem, during a data upload by the client, some special characters were uploaded in the database.
Sample data : " AC Power Cord Denmark "
I want to find all records containing such special characters and update them.
TOAD is able to display these characters but when i copy them onto the query... it doesnt work.
Can we know which encoding is that ? or do something to take care of this ?
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Champ

insert into t1 values ('joe$%"likes#$%#to*()ride%^$#his bike');
1 rows inserted
select * from t1;
C1
joe$%"likes#$%#to*()ride%^$#his bike
1 rows selected
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1 rows selected
update t1 set c1 = translate(c1,'!@#$%^&*()"','          ');
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1 rows selectedI didn't notice your special special characters, but it still works:
insert into t1 values ('joe likes his'||chr(22));
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update t1 set c1 = translate(c1,chr(22),' ');
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JoeC

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do
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