Strange characters in report .csv export

Hello,
When I enable .csv export in my report, a name like Chiràc Jaqués apears as ChirÃ¨c JaquÃ©s in the csv.
I understand it has to do with charactersets but I don't know how to solve it.
Cheers
Jacob

Jacob,
go to:
Shared Components>Edit Globalization Attributes
and set the
Automatic CSV Encoding
to "YES".
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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Hola compañeros. Estoy utilizando Oracle Report 6i y cuando quiero imprimir un reporte en modo caracter me aparecen unos extraños simbolos al final de las lineas, como se puede apreciar en la imagen:
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