Elxis installation procedure is the same for any database type.
Database type: oci8 (the database type is the adodb's driver used to connect to your database, use oci8 for oracle)
I think this is because you might have not set up Oracle to support international characters. I am not an oracle expert and I can not see your database from here to help you more with this. Why dont you try with MySQL or ProstgreSQL as you face too many problems with Oracle?