Oracle Instant Client encoding

One can use the following v$nls_parameters view to find the database LANGUAGE, TERRITORY and CHARACTER SET.

select DECODE(parameter, 'NLS_CHARACTERSET', 'CHARACTER SET',
'NLS_LANGUAGE', 'LANGUAGE',
'NLS_TERRITORY', 'TERRITORY') name,
value from v$nls_parameters
WHERE parameter IN ( 'NLS_CHARACTERSET', 'NLS_LANGUAGE', 'NLS_TERRITORY')
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NAME VALUE
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LANGUAGE ENGLISH
TERRITORY LATVIA
CHARACTER SET UTF8

export NLS_LANG=<language>_<territory>.<character set>