Oracle SQL Developer client encoding - windows

Question

I read many of the related Stack Overflow's topics and I spent a whole day with googleing the following problem but I haven't found anything that would help, however the problem not seems to be complicated.
I have an Oracle database.
Let's see the following PL/SQL script:
CREATE TABLE Dummy(
id number(19,0),
tclob clob,
tnclob nclob,
PRIMARY KEY (id));
INSERT INTO dummy (id, tclob, tnclob) VALUES (1, 'ñ$ߤ*>;''<’', 'ñ$ߤ*>;''<’');
SELECT tclob, tnclob FROM dummy;
My problem is that 'ñ' and '’' characters are stored as a question mark.
I also tried to load the previously inserted values through JAVA, but I get the question marks instead of the special characters.
I created a small Java method which uses OraclePreparedStatement to save test data, and I use setNString() method to attach the nclob data to the query. In this case all characters are displayed fine in Java and also in SqlDeveloper.
So a possible solution is to use JAVA to save my data into the db. I have a thousands of lines SQL script which inserts data and I don't necessarily want to write the whole thing again in java.
So the question is: why the SqlDeveloper breaks the special characters?
My settings:
SELECT DECODE(parameter, 'NLS_CHARACTERSET', 'CHARACTER SET',
'NLS_LANGUAGE', 'LANGUAGE',
'NLS_TERRITORY', 'TERRITORY') name,
value from v$nls_parameters
WHERE parameter IN ( 'NLS_CHARACTERSET', 'NLS_LANGUAGE', 'NLS_TERRITORY')
Result:
+---------------+--------------+
| NAME | VALUE |
+---------------+--------------+
| LANGUAGE | HUNGARIAN |
| TERRITORY | HUNGARY |
| CHARACTER SET | EE8ISO8859P2 |
+---------------+--------------+
I changed SqlDeveloper/Preferences/Environment/Encoding to UTF-8.
I also changed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OraDb11g_home1 value to HUNGARIAN_HUNGARY.UTF8
Update: I tried to insert the data with the following syntaxes:
INSERT INTO dummy (id, tclob, tnclob) VALUES (1, N'ñ$ߤ*>;''<’', N'ñ$ߤ*>;''<’');
INSERT INTO dummy (id, tclob, tnclob) VALUES (1, 'ñ$ߤ*>;''<’', to_nclob('ñ$ߤ*>;''<’'));
Nothing helped.
So what can I do?

Answer 1

On the PC that PLSQL is installed, set the value of NLS_LANG registery entry equal to the PC's operation system locale (code page), equivalent value.
How to detect operating system language locale?
How to map OS locale to NLS_LANG value?
When using PLSQL the initial parameter of client-language that is required to create an Oracle session is read from NLS_LANG registry entry.
Due to Oracle documents, invalid data usually occurs in a database because the NLS_LANG parameter is not set properly on the client.
The NLS_LANG value should reflect the client operating system code page.
For example, in an English Windows environment, the code page is WE8MSWIN1252. When the NLS_LANG parameter is set properly, the database can automatically convert incoming data from the client operating system to its encoding.
When using JAVA method, the client-language parameter is set by the value from the Control Panel, under Regional and Language Options, so the things will be OK.

Answer 2

You can try to change NLS_LANG value on your Win PC with regedit tool.
Path is: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE, when NLS_LANG contain value of your Oracle client's current encoding.
There is Oracle's list of available encodings:
Commonly Used Values for NLS_LANG