Manoj
   I agree entirely with Stephane. For most of us the display is based on
the ASCII character set, which doesn't have the character you desire. If you
go beyond ASCII, then you are in the "device-dependent" region. For example,
if you wanted to print this on an HP laser printer, then you'd need to
locate the HP manual for that printer and then send the character sequence
to the printer that would produce the character you wished. I think you'll
have to research whatever device you will be using to produce this. Another
thought is to see if HTML can define superscript characters (I'll bet it
can), and produce an HTML file for better device independence.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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I am afraid you are totally off-topic. This is not a database problem, it is
a character set problem. Check the character set you are using, there may
be, among those weird characters outside the 'usual' ranges, a tiny little 2
hanging up. Note down the character number, say n, and store 'x' || chr(n).
I remember a colleague who 15 years back or so was storing characters which
were drawing a little 'Snoopy' character on his VT220.
I must add immediately that storing this is a very bad idea, for the simple
reason that Oracle can perform some automatic character set translation
(think of exp/imp or how you can specify the character set on a client). You
are fishing for trouble. Store it as 'x ** 2' and everybody will understand.

HTH

SF

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