PLS-00553 character set not recognize!!!

[pappetta]

Hy All,

I ran some triggers compiling script from SQL Plus, and
got the following error.

ORA-06550: line 7, column 18:
PLS-00553: character set name is not recognized
PL/SQL: Compilation unit analysis terminated

My baseline is Oracle 8.1.7 on Sun Solaris 5.8 Unix system
and NLS parameters values are:

select * from nls_database_parameters

NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 8.1.7.3.0

Note: yesterday someone tied to solve the problem by changing "NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET" value to "WE8ISO8859P1" instead of "US7ASCII" running this sql statement:

update sys.props$ set value$='WE8ISO8859P1' where name='NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET'.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Raffaele
mailto: penna.raffaele@libero.it

 

[rcurva]

What is the character set of the database? Is this database migrated from another database but with a different char set?
Robbie

"The rule is, not to besiege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided" -- Art of War

 

[pappetta]

These are database, session and instance NLS parameter values:

select * from nls_database_parameters
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 8.1.7.3.0

select * from nls_session_parameters

NLS_LANGUAGE ITALIAN
NLS_TERRITORY ITALY
NLS_CURRENCY L.
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY ITALY
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ,.
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE ITALIAN
NLS_SORT WEST_EUROPEAN
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF TZH:TZM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH24:MI:SSXFF TZH:TZM
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY ¿
NLS_COMP BINARY

select * from nls_instance_parameters
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_SORT
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE
NLS_DATE_FORMAT
NLS_CURRENCY
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY
NLS_CALENDAR
NLS_TIME_FORMAT
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY
NLS_COMP

Note that I was told NLS_CHARACTERSET database's parameter was modified from "US7ACSII" to "WE8ISO8859P1" about one mounth ago. But I'm sure that US7ACSII is a strict subset of the new WE8ISO8859P1 character set. So I don't expect migration problem....

Thanks...

 

[lfoata]

Hint : The client NLS parameter overwrites the the database NLS parameter. Too bad I.T. is not cash business

Luc Foata
Unix sysadmin, Oracle DBA

 

[ManjulaMadhu]

Oracle documentation says:

Bug fixed in version 9.0.1 :
SQL*Plus bind variable assignment results in a 'PLS-00553' error if issued within the same SQL*Plus session used to shutdown and restart the database (1335603)