Globalization Settings for Oracle Instant Client Basic Light
Oracle Instant Client Basic Light supports the following client character sets.
Single-byte
- US7ASCII
- WE8DEC
- WE8ISO8859P1
- EE8ISO8859P2
- NEE8ISO8859P4
- CL8ISO8859P5
- AR8ISO8859P6
- EL8ISO8859P7
- IW8ISO8859P8
- WE8ISO8859P9
- NE8ISO8859P10
- TH8TISASCII
- VN8MSWIN1258
- WE8ISO8859P15
- BLT8ISO8859P13
- EE8MSWIN1250
- CL8MSWIN1251
- EL8MSWIN1253
- IW8MSWIN1255
- TR8MSWIN1254
- WE8MSWIN1252
- BLT8MSWIN1257
- AR8MSWIN1256
Multibyte
- JA16EUC
- JA16SJIS
- JA16EUCTILDE
- JA16SJISTILDE
- KO16MSWIN949
- ZHS16GBK
- ZHT32EUC
- ZHT16MSWIN950
- ZHT16HKSCS
Unicode
- UTF8
- AL32UTF8
- AL16UTF16 (only as NCHAR character set)
The preceding character sets, except AL16UTF16, can be specified in the NLS_LANG setting and can be the character set of a database to which the Instant Client Basic Light connects. The following character sets can also be the character set of a database to which the Instant Client Basic Light connects:
- WE8EBCDIC37C
- WE8EBCDIC1047
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.
Parent topic: Installing Oracle Instant Client Basic Light