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XK0-004 · Question #529

An administrator was updating several systems and received the following warning for each one: No support Locale en_US.UTF-8. Which of the following should the administrator run to eliminate this warn

The correct answer is C. Option C. The 'No support Locale en_US.UTF-8' warning means the locale has not been generated on the system and must be compiled using the appropriate locale generation command.

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Question

An administrator was updating several systems and received the following warning for each one:

No support Locale en_US.UTF-8. Which of the following should the administrator run to eliminate this warning?

Exhibit

XK0-004 question #529 exhibit

Options

  • AOption A
  • BOption B
  • COption C
  • DOption D

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    88% (36)
  • D
    2% (1)

Why each option

The 'No support Locale en_US.UTF-8' warning means the locale has not been generated on the system and must be compiled using the appropriate locale generation command.

AOption A

Option A does not invoke the correct locale generation command or syntax needed to compile and register the en_US.UTF-8 locale on the system.

BOption B

Option B does not address locale generation and therefore would not resolve the 'No support Locale' warning that appeared on each system.

COption CCorrect

The correct fix is to run 'locale-gen en_US.UTF-8', which compiles and installs the specified locale definition so the operating system and applications can use it. On systemd-based distributions, 'localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8' can also configure the locale persistently. Option C uses the proper command to generate the missing locale and eliminate the warning across all affected systems.

DOption D

Option D uses an incorrect command or arguments that would fail to generate the required locale, leaving the warning unresolved.

Concept tested: Linux locale generation and configuration

Source: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/locale-gen.8.html

Topics

#locale settings#UTF-8#locale-gen#system configuration

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