Inserting FRENCH characters

I have installed Oracle9i Release 2(9.2.0.1.0) on RedHat Linux 8.0
I have the next parameters:

SQL> select * from nls_database_parameters;

PARAMETER VALUE
------------------------------------------------------------
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 TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 9.2.0.1.0
------------------------------------------------------------

I try to do:

CREATE TABLE test (
t1 INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
t2 VARCHAR2(10)
);

INSERT INTO test VALUES(1,'français');

I have the error:
INSERT INTO test VALUES(1,'français')
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00917: missing comma

If I replace the character ç with c for example, that's work.

I tried with the other database that has the configuration:
(I have the same error)
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SQL> select * from nls_database_parameters;

PARAMETER VALUE
------------------------------------------------------------
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8
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 TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 9.2.0.1.0

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Tkanks in advance four your advices.

Hi Crista, looks like no one knows!
Have you raised a TAR in MetaLink?

I don't know the character sets you have.Maybe ( if they are uppersets) you could change them to WE8ISO8859P1.
That works on mine in 8i ...bonne chance :


SQL> CREATE TABLE test (
2 t1 INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
3 t2 VARCHAR2(10)
4 );

Table créée.

SQL>
SQL> INSERT INTO test VALUES(1,'français');

1 ligne créée.

SQL> select * from test;

T1 T2
---------- ----------
1 français

SQL> select * from nls_database_parameters;

PARAMETER VALUE
------------------------------ ---------------------------------------
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

PARAMETER VALUE
------------------------------ ---------------------------------------
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 8.1.7.0.0

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SQL> select * from v$version
2 ;

BANNER
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Oracle8i Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
CORE 8.1.7.0.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 3.4.1.0.0 - Production