LPI Linux Certification/Localisation and internationalisation

Detailed Objectives

(LPIC-1 Version 5.0)

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to localize a system in a different language than English. As well, an understanding of why LANG=C is useful when scripting.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Configure locale settings and environment variables.
Configure timezone settings and environment variables.

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

/etc/timezone
/etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/
LC_*
LC_ALL
LANG
TZ
/usr/bin/locale
tzselect
timedatectl
date
iconv
UTF-8
ISO-8859
ASCII
Unicode

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