Store Hindi Characters

Hi
I would like to store Hindi characters in my database. I am using oracle 9 and java 1.4.2. Can anybody help me as i dont know how ? Every time i save anything it is stored as a ��(upside down questionmarks). and is returned as a ? (sing question)

It depends on how much of data requires internationalization features. If the amount of hindi ( special charset ) data is more then, it makes sense to convert your database charset to UTF. If the amount of data is less, such as a few tables and few columns or maybe a schema, then you can use the NCHAR data type.
See this sample to learn how to use NCHAR datatype to retrieve and store special characters.
NCHAR Support for Unicode Data Sample
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/files/9i_jdbc/index.html
How to store and retrieve multilingual data using JDBC
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/tech/java/codesnippet/jdbc/nls/Globalization.html
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