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scientific symbols insertiong in database.

 
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Dear friends,

when i insert the scientific symbols into the database like Ellipses(Alt+0133) and bullet (Alt+0149), Endash (Alt+0150), Emdash(Alt+0151) , in View retriving using xml, i am getting ??? instead of the scientific symbols

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R. Ramasubramaniam.
 
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Perhaps the software you are using to view the XML simply can't display those symbols.

If this was my problem I would use an editor capable of showing the HEX values of characters to see what values are really there.

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it is also possible you are using a datatype on your database that can't handle these symbols.

but I would try Bill's suggestion first, this is a follow up answer.
 
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It's also possible that your database is configured to use a charset which can't represent those characters.
 
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