Unable data containing German characters

Hi All,
We are facing a problem in retriving the German characters from the Oracle database. We are using a Oracle Thin Client driver and the NLS_LANG for the database is set to UTF-8. Also we are ensuring the the correct NLS is set in the JSP by setting UTF-8 as the character set.
Please give me any tips or tricks to resolve this problem.
Thanks & Regards,
Milind

I am having the same problem.

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