Workbook 8 Chap 1

Question 1

What is RHEL’s default text encoding format? [11]

Answer 1

UTF-8 encoding format seems to be evolving as an accepted standard

Question 2

Which environment variable defines a user’s default encoding technique? [11]

Answer 2

The LANG environment variable is used to define a user’s language, and possibly the default encoding
technique as well

Question 3

Give a command line that displays the contents of /etc/hosts and displays line feeds as $, tabs as
^I, and whitespace/control characters as ^n, where n indicates the CTRL sequence for the non printing character. [13]

Answer 3

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