Question : special-characters

How do I store/retrieve diacritic symbols from an HTML form into the DB
The DB is 9i and has we8 characterset.

I assume user can key in whatever diacritic or symbol using the keyboard comibinations
http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/spchar.html

and oracle will save it. is this correct? would db shows it in simple query.

Now on the way out from DB to web page, do I have to use escape special character before it displays on the html form.

Answer : special-characters

Too bad you're on Oracle 9i.  If you were on 10g you could make use of the convert function.  I hope you'll be upgrading soon.

For example:

select convert('', 'US7ASCII') result from dual
/

result
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hello