Linux Administration/Administrative Tasks/Localization

This lesson covers localization.

Objectives and Skills edit

Objectives and skills for the localization portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]

  • Localization and internationalization
    • Configure local 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
      • Environment variables:
        • LC_*
        • LC_ALL
        • LANG
        • TZ
      • /usr/bin/locale
      • tzselect
      • tzconfig
      • date
      • iconv
      • UTF-8
      • ISO-8859
      • ASCII
      • Unicode

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Activities edit

  1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Localization and internationalization

Lesson Summary edit

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