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Localizations
Determine the way data is displayed
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A set of files that Linux uses to determine country and language -specific settings for various applications | locale |
| locales use configuration files that are part of the system library in: | /urs/share/locale |
| Specifies the computer use US English with a UTF-8 encoding when displaying information | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 |
| Implements the locale code | Environment variables |
| Environment variable: Defines all locale settings at one, while allowing further customization via the LC_* setting | LANG |
| Environment variable: Defines the character handling properties - determines whether characters are recognized as alphabetical, numeric | LC_CTYPE |
| Environment variable: Specifies Localizations for applications that use a message-based localization scheme | LC_MESSAGES |
| Environment variable: Defines alphabetical ordering of strings, such as the output of sorted directory listings | LC_COLLATE |
| Environment variable: Determines formatting for numeric values that are not monetary. It affects things such the thousands separator and the decimal separator | LC_NUMERIC |
| Environment variable: Defines currency units and formatting of currency types and numeric values | LC_MONETARY |
| Environment variable: Defines formatting for dates and time | LC_TIME |
| Environment variable: Defines the default paper size | LC_PAPER |
| Environment variable: Specifies the personal name format. This includes thing like whether the surname comes first or last | LC_NAME |
| Environment variable: Is used for addressing formatting | LC_ADDRESS |
| Environment variable: Defines telephone number formatting | LC_TELEPHONE |
| Environment variable: Determines what measurement units are used | LC_MEASUEMENT |
| Environment variable: Is used as an override for LC_MESSAGES | LANGUAGE |
| Environment variable: Is a special variable for overriding all other settings. IT sets all locales to the same setting | LC_ALL |
| Locales: use language codes specified in: | ISO-639 |
| Locales: use county codes specified in: | ISO-3166 |
| Meaning of en_US.UTF-8 | Language_Territory_Code-set-Modifier |
| Command to display the current locale setting for the computer | locale |
| Locale Option: Display the character encoding | locale charmap |
| locale Options: list all locales | locale -a |
| locale Options: List all installed character encoding options | locale -m |
| Convert encoding from one encoding type to another | iconv |
| iconv Options: Specifies the OLD encoding type | iconv -f |
| iconv Options:Specifies the NEW encoding type | iconv -t |
| iconv Options: Specifies the input and output file | iconv -o |
| iconv Example: Change encoding type | iconv -f scr_enc -t dest_enc -o out_file in_file |