Unicode character insertion

We changed one of the column to NVARCHAR2 (200) to support the multi language implementation. This is what our nls_database_parameter has
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET,AL16UTF16
NLS_LANGUAGE,AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY,AMERICA
NLS_CHARACTERSET,US7ASCII
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP,FALSE
update tmp_table set comments='Ã£Ã£Ã£Ã£Ã£Ã£Ã£' where aaa_id = 3577090
But I see after the update is just ???????
What am I missing?
Thanks

No I am using VB (ADO, ORAOLEDB) to insert the data. In my VB code I know the data that I have is unicode. I cann see it by doing val(ascb(midb(Comments,2))) * 256 + val(ascb(midb(Comments,1)))
Also if I use sql plus editor to insert some data using insert into abc value nchr(64037), I can retrieve this data using my VB.
While inserting I am using a stored procedure command and am specifying the type as 202 (adVarWChar).
Does the client setting (NLS_LANG) need to be anything specific? I tried setting it to UTF8 as well

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