Linux 2 Ch 8-Localization

Question 1

/etc/localtime

Answer 1

File used to configure the time zone of the system. The time zone data for different regions is maintained in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. To setup a particular time zone, a symbolic link is created from the /etc/localtime file to the corresponding file in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory.

Question 2

/etc/timezone

Answer 2

File that stores the system timezone.

Question 3

/usr/share/zoneinfo/

Answer 3

The time zone data for different regions is maintained in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. To setup a particular time zone, a symbolic link is created from the /etc/localtime file to the corresponding file in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory.

Question 4

ASCII

Answer 4

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a 7-bit encoding scheme, used to encode letters, numerals, symbols and device control codes as fixed-length codes. ASCII is originally based on the English alphabet and encodes 128 characters.

Question 5

ISO-8859

Answer 5

ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) series of standards for 8-bit character encodings.

Question 6

LANG

Answer 6

If set, all locale envinrmental variables are set to the the value of LANG.

Question 7

LC_*

Answer 7

If set, all locale envinrmental variables are set to the the value of LC_*.

Question 8

LC_ALL

Answer 8

If set, all locale envinrmental variables are set to the the value of LC_ALL.

Question 9

TZ

Answer 9

Environment variable is used to determine the timezone and how to calculate local time.

Question 10

UTF-8

Answer 10

UCS Transformation Format – 8 bit. UCS is Universal Character Set upon which many character encodings are based. UTF-8 is increasingly being used as the default character encoding in operating systems, programming languages, APIs and software applications. It is also the dominant character encoding for iInternet.

Question 11

Unicode

Answer 11

Universal Character Set (UCS), was developed to find a permanent solution to the problem of abundance of character sets used for writing text in different languages. It is a single character set whose goal is to be a superset of all other prior sets and to contain every character used in writing any language, as well as other symbols used in mathematics and engineering.

Question 12

date

Answer 12

Command used to display or set (must be root) the current date and time. In addition to the many output format options, date is also used to display a relative date ($ date –date=”next mon”), past dates ($ date –date=”1 year ago”), Universal time and the last modification time of a file.

Question 13

iconv

Answer 13

Command used to convert one character encoding to another. The iconv command is suitable to convert characters in a large number of files.

Question 14

locale

Answer 14

The locale command without any arguments gives the summary of each locale category.

Question 15

tzselect

Answer 15

Comman used to determine the timezone value used to set the TZ variable for a particular location by allowing the user to choose the country and location from a set of menus.

Question 16

Which command is used to list all available locales on the system?
locale -a
locale -A
locale
locale -l

Answer 16

locale -a

Question 17

Setting which of the following environment variables will change the language and encoding for the current login session to French?
LC_NAME=fr_FR.iso-8859-15
LANG=fr_FR.iso-8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.iso-8859-15
LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.iso-8859-15

Answer 17

LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.iso-8859-15

Question 18

What is the behavior of setting C locale?
Strings are displayed as written in the initial code
Strings are translated and then displayed
Strings are always displayed in UTF-8
Strings are displayed as per the user’s LANG setting

Answer 18

Strings are displayed as written in the initial code

Question 19

UTC is not subjected to daylight saving time.
True or False?
True
False

Answer 19

True

Question 20

The /etc/localtime file is a flat file containing plain text that is used to configure the system wide time zone.
True or False?
True
False

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Which file is used to indicate the current time zone on Red Hat systems?
/etc/sysconfig/clock
/etc/sysconfig/time
/etc/sysconfig/tz
/etc/sysconfig/time

Answer 21

/etc/sysconfig/clock

Question 22

What does UTF-8 mean?
UCS Technology Format
UCS Transformation Format
UCS Transcoding Format
UCS Transfer Format

Answer 22

UCS Transformation Format

Question 23

UTF-8 is a fixed-width encoding scheme that can represent every character in the Unicode character set.
True or False?
True
False

Answer 23

False

Question 24

How many bits character encoding is supported by ISO?
8-bit
4-bit
32-bit
16-bit

Answer 24

8-bit

Question 25

The ______ mapping method is supported by Unicode. Universal Formatting Set Universal Locale Set (ULS) Universal Character Set (UCS) Universal Transformation Set (UTS)

Question 26

Linux systems keep time in ____. UTC UST IST GMT

Answer 26

UTC

Question 27

Which utility is used to determine the value of the TZ variable? tzset tzselect tzchange tzmod

Answer 27

tzselect

Question 28

Which command is used to verify time zone changes? date sysdate nls systime

Answer 28

date

Question 29

ASCII is not a subset of UTF-8. True or False? True False

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Which of the following is not a capability of Unicode characters? Uses separate language packs for each language Can be used in file names User applications can display Unicode files Supports mathematical and technical symbols

Answer 30

Uses separate language packs for each language