Oracle connection problem

I'm trying to connect to an Orcle DB. This is my first time using Oracle databases( A MySQL guy here), and after the connection has been succesfully established, it throws and error:

12737 ORA-12737: Instant Client Light: unsupported server character set BLT8CP921 * 

How would i go about fixing this? Does that mean, that 开发者_运维技巧the server has a charset not supported by my oci client, or what?

I am using PHP/Zend_Framework to connect to this db. As far as the Oracle version goes - I have no Idea. I was given only access to it, nothing more.

Thanks!

One fix would be to install Oracle Client Full or Instant Basic rather than Instant Light. You are right that that particular version cannot handle that character set and thats what is throwing the error, as explained here.

Oracle Docs (scroll down to the header that says Instant Client Light)

Instant Basic is just as lightweight as the 'Light' version but supports all character sets.