Re: set up Debian etch support English and Chinese

[manphiz <manphiz@gmail.com>]

rocky wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I installed Debian and select Chinese as the language. The
> installation is for Debian sarge therefore I aptitude dist-upgrade the
> box to debian etch by first upgrade the kernel to 2.6. I want to
> debian system support Chinese show and input.  In the /etc/locale.gen
> I have zh_CN GB2312. After log in, the error and system prompt for
> aptitude are becoming unreadable. Can any of you tell me how can I get
> the system support chinese input and set the root user using English
> and other normal users using Chinese for application (like mutt) menus
> please? I'm not using X-window-server.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Blessings,
> Rocky

It is estimated behavior, since standard command-line environment is not 
supposed to support non-latin characters out-of-the-box. You may try 
package "zhcon" which will provide a Chinese environment.

And, it is recommended to use UTF-8 environment for better multi-lingual 
compatible environment, which is default since etch, and zhcon-0.2.5 or 
later supports utf8 by parameter --utf8.