Linux 2 Chap9

Which file is used to indicate the current time zone on Red Hat systems?

/etc/sysconfig/clock

How many bits character encoding is supported by ISO?

8-bit

Which of the following parameters is not referred by locale?

Digital signatures

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

False

For locally run programs, the locale information is provided by system variables. True or False?

False

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

False

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

False

Character encoding is the process of maintaining the mapping between the character and its ______ value.

Internal

Setting which of the following environment variables will change the language and encoding for the current login session to French?

LANG=fr_FR.iso-8859-15

Which of the following is not seen in the output of the locale command?

LC_PRINT

Which characters are not supported by ASCII?

Mathematical symbols

Which environment variable is used to specify the directories for message translation catalogs?

NLSPATH

How is the locale set for web applications?

Obtained from the web browser

Which of the following is not a function of the date command?

Sorting files by date

What is the behavior of setting C locale?

Strings are displayed as written in the initial code

Which environment variable is used to find the time zone?

TZ

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

True

What does UTF-8 mean?

UCS Transformation Format

Linux systems keep time in ____.

UTC

Which is the most commonly used character encoding for the Internet?

UTF-8

The ______ mapping method is supported by Unicode

Universal Character Set (UCS)

Which of the following is NOT a capability of Unicode characters?

Uses separate language packs for each language

Which command is used to verify time zone changes?

date

Which API is used for converting one character encoding to another?

iconv

Which can be used for converting an older ASCII encoded file to UTF-8 encoding?

iconv

What is the format used for naming a locale definition file?

language[_territory][.codeset][@modifiers]

Which command is used to list all available locales on the system?

locale -a

Which command is used to find the current character mapping in Linux?

locale charmap

Which utility is used to determine the TZ variable's value?

tzselect

Which file is used to set the user's locale permanently?

~/.profile