problems getting Hebrew strings from Oracle

Hi all,
I have 2 machines: linux_perl_machine and sql_server (Oracle 9i).

I am trying to connect from the perl machine to the sql_server and execute :
"select Hebrew from Hebrew_Table" ,
but all I get is somthing like: '???? ??????'

The perl machine is not local and I work on it via ssh.
The db encoding is logical and the linux_perl_machine is:

LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_NAME=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=he_IL.UTF-8
LC_ALL=


any ideas?

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