Edit the/etc/sysconfig/i18n file. delete the original settings, copy the following LANG = "zh_CN.GB18030" SUPPORTED = "zh_CN.GB18030: zh_CN: zh: en_US.UTF-8: en_US: en" SYSFONT = "latarcyrheb-sun16" Save, restart. OK. Now, Chinese characters can be displayed on the linux console, in RHEL5, the corresponding file is/usr/lib/locale/zh_CN.gb18030/etc/sysconfig/i18n. Here, the first line of system region language settings indicates the language environment of your current system. variable settings, here is zh_CN.GB18030 second line shows that the system preset those language support, not in the project language cannot normally display the third line definition console terminal font, you text login to display the font is the latarcyrheb-sun16 note: www.2cto.com I18N is the abbreviation form of internationalization. It means that there are 18 letters between I and n. It means the software is "internationalized ". i18N supports multiple languages, but it can only be English or a selected language at the same time, such as English + Chinese, English + German, English + Korean, etc. The original: LANG = "zh_CN.UTF-8" SUPPORTED = "zh_CN.UTF-8: zh_CN: zh" SYSFONT = "latarcyrheb-sun16" this article is from the guest Network