Solve the RedHat 5 Chinese issue in VMWare 1. enter the terminal and use the command: vi/etc/sysconfig/i18n to modify the content to LANG = "zh_CN.UTF-8" SYSFONT = "lat-sun16" 2. mount ISO: mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom (Create/mnt/cdrom: mkdir/mnt/cdrom first) 3. install Chinese Character pack rpm-ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/fonts-chinese-3.02-12.el5.noarch.rpm rpm-ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi-1.0-17.1.noarch.rpm umount/dev/cdrom 4. modify/etc/fonts. add <dir>/usr/share/fonts/chinese </dir> 5 to the <fontconfig> node. log out to install Chinese Input rpm-ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/scim-libs-1.4.4-41.el5.i386.rpm rpm-ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/scim-1.4.4-41.el5.i386.rpm rpm-ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/scim-chinese-standard-0.0.2-1.el5.i386.rpm rpm -ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/scim-tables-0.5.6-7.i386.rpm rpm-ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/scim-tables-chinese-0.5.6-7.i386.rpm rpm-ivh/mnt/cdrom/Server/scim-pinyin-0.5.91-16.el5.i386.rpm