Instant Client Light Requirements

In addition to the requirements described in the preceding section, if you plan to use Instant Client Light, then the applications must use the following languages and character sets:

Language: Any language that is supported by Oracle
Territory: Any territory that is supported by Oracle
Character sets:
- Single byte
  - US7ASCII
  - WE8DEC
  - WE8MSWIN1252
  - WE8ISO8859P1
- Unicode
  - UTF8
  - AL16UTF16
  - AL32UTF8
  Instant Client Light can connect to databases having one of the following database character sets:
  - US7ASCII
  - WE8DEC
  - WE8MSWIN1252
  - WE8ISO8859P1
  - WE8EBCDIC37C
  - WE8EBCDIC1047
  - UTF8
  - AL32UTF8

Instant Client Light can also operate with the OCI Environment handles created in the OCI_UTF16 mode.

The language, territory, and character sets are determined by the NLS_LANG environment variable.

Note:

Ensure that you set the NLS_LANG environment variable to the required character set before you run Oracle Database Instant Client.

Parent topic: Checking the Software Requirements