How to fix the Oracle error LSX-00016: schema and instance document have incompatible character sets?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorLSX-00016: schema and instance document have incompatible character sets with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

LSX-00016: schema and instance document have incompatible character sets

Reason for the Error LSX-00016: schema and instance document have incompatible character sets

Cause: Parsed schema components were in a simple-type character set while the parsed instance document data was not. A simple-type character set is single-byte, not shift sensitive, and has no linguistic specials in use.

How to fix the Error LSX-00016: schema and instance document have incompatible character sets ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Action: Reinitialize the schema global context with appropriate parser context settings, i.e. pass a parser context with its output encoding set to be a multibyte or Unicode character set.