Globalization Settings for Oracle Instant Client Basic Light

Learn about the character sets supported by Oracle Instant Client Basic Light.

Oracle Instant Client Basic Light supports the following client character sets:

Single-byte

• US7ASCII
• WE8DEC
• WE8MSWIN1252
• WE8ISO8859P1

Unicode

• UTF8
• AL16UTF16
• AL32UTF8

Oracle Instant Client Basic Light can connect to databases having one of these database character sets:

• US7ASCII
• WE8DEC
• WE8MSWIN1252
• WE8ISO8859P1
• WE8EBCDIC37C
• WE8EBCDIC1047
• UTF8
• AL32UTF8

Oracle Instant Client Basic Light returns an error if any other character set is used as the client or database character set. Oracle Instant Client Basic Light can also operate with the OCI Environment handles created in the OCI_UTF16 mode.