How to enable Chinese on Debian lenny? [closed]

Question

I have already

1. installed Chinese fonts

   $ sudo apt-cache search chinese
   $ sudo apt-get install ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ...
   

2. added locales

   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales, 
   

and chose the following

• en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
• zh_CN GB2312
• zh_CN.GBK GBK
• zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8
• zh_TW BIG5
• zh_TW.UTF-8 UTF-8

However when I try to create a file with Chinese characters in file name by touch <some chinese characters ...>.txt, it fails and substituted Chinese characters with --------- at terminal.

How to fix this?

[Edit, Aug. 15, 2011, 21:42]

After rebooting, everything is working.

Answer 1

You need to tell your terminal to use the Chinese locale; I'm no multilingual expert, but if you've got a UTF-8 compatibile terminal, I would expect that adding the following to your .bashrc and logging out/in:

export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8

or

export LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8

(depending on your particular preference) should do the trick.