This lesson covers localization.

Objectives and Skills

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

Readings

Multimedia

Activities

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

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