Spool Russian Characters from a unix(AIX) sql script

Hi All,
I have a problem selecting and spooling a column whose characters are in russian to a flat file. If I use oracle sql developer, the data comes out right, e.g
Р-Н ТАШКЕНТ
However is i try to run the same select from a unix sql script and spool the results, I get some gibberish like:
ò-î ôáûëåîô or a chain of question marks ?????????
select * from nls_database_parameters gives:
NLS_LANGUAGE=AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY=AMERICA
NLS_CHARACTERSET=UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET=AL16UTF16
I have tried exporting the environment variable using these various options individially to no avail:
export NLS_LANG=RUSSIAN_CIS.CL8MSWIN1251
RUSSIAN_RUSSIA.RU8PC866
RUSSIAN_RUSSIA.CL8KOI8R
RUSSIAN_RUSSIA.CL8MACCYRILLICS
RUSSIAN_RUSSIA.RU8PC855
RUSSIAN_RUSSIA.RU8BESTA
RUSSIAN_RUSSIA.CL8ISO8859P5
Please help.
Thanks,
Edited by: HouseofHunger on Apr 12, 2012 4:02 PM

Os version: AIX 6.1.0.0
Database version: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bit
with the default values for NLS_LANG, I run sqlplus
sqlplus user/password@oracle_sid
select column_name from table_name;
and the output is:
column_name
I exit and export NLS_LANG=RUSSIAN_CIS.CL8ISO8859P5
go back into sqlplus and run the same query as above, and the output is
column_name
À-½ Â°Èºµ½Â
À-¾½ ÃÀÂ°Ç¸ÀÇ¸ºÁº¸¹
Â°Èºµ½Â
Â°Èºµ½Â
¾»Â¸½¾¹ À-¾½
³ ±µº°±°´
Î Ç¸ÀÇ¸ºÁº¸¹ À-½ Ã·±µº¸ÁÂ
Ä°À³¾½°
Ïºº°Á°À°¹Áº¸¹
Â°Èºµ½Â
Á°¼°Àº°½´
So it seems the output I get is somehow influenced by the value of environment variable NLS_LANG, so it may be that either I need the correct value for this environment variable or I need some config on the OS level.....?
Also the command locale -a gives following output - I am not very good on locales, so it maybe that the russian local isn't installed...?
$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US.8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US
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