Locale Settings II

Locale Settings II


LC_CTYPE locale variable 

The LC_CTYPE locale variable can be assigned a locale value using the following syntax:


language_territory.codeset @modifier 


This syntax uses these values:


• language 
  Specifies the ISO 639 language code to be used (specified in lowercase)

• territory
  Specifies the ISO 3166 country code to be used (specified in uppercase)

• codeset 
  Specifies the character set to be used

• modifier 
  Specifies other locale attributes, such as dialect or currency



Consider the following examples:



• en_US 
  The language and territory for English in the United States

• en_CA 
  The language and territory for English in Canada

• fr_CA 
  The language and territory for French Canadian



You can also specify an encoding in the locale. For example, you could use

en_US.UTF-8 

to configure a default locale of U.S. English using UTF-8 character encoding (also known as
Unicode encoding).




LX0-104 Exam Objectives (M)