Courses
LPIC
Exam 102
107 – Administrative Tasks
107.3 – Localisation and internationalisation

107.3 – Localisation and internationalisation

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.

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

107.2 – Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs