title: When I export Chinese characters from Oracle forms to Excel, they are not Chinese anymore
body: <p>I have problem with Chinese characters when I export them from Oracle forms 10g to Excel on <strong>Windows 7</strong>. Although they look like Chinese but they are not Chinese characters. Take this into consideration that I have already changed the language of my computer to Chinese and restarted my computer. I use owa_sylk utility and call the excel report like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    v_url := 'http://....../excel_reports.rep?sqlString=' ||
         v_last_query      || 
         '&amp;font_name='     ||       
         'Arial Unicode MS'||
         '&amp;show_null_as='  ||
         ' '               ; 
  
  web.show_document(v_url,'_self');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here you can see what it looks like:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/r13pm.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Interestingly, when I change the language of my computer to English, this column is empty. Besides, I realized that if I open the file with a text editor then it has the right Chinese word, but when we open it with Excel we have problem.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone has a clue?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>