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I am working on a data set that contains Chinese characters. Stata displays these as gibberish and I need to be able to read these. I could not find a Chinese language pack for Stata. Does something like this exist?

I am using Windows 7 Professional and StataSE 13 (64 bit).

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  1. Go to Control Panel->Language->Advanced Settings.

  2. Click into Apply language settings to the welcome screen, system accounts, and new user accounts.

  3. In Administrative tab, under language for non-Unicode programs, change it to Chinese (Simplified). You might need to change system locale if your computer wasn’t initially set to be located in China.

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adrCoder
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For those who arrive here via Google. There have been substantial improvements since this question was answered:

See here for more information on setting locale in Stata 15 and later.

"If your computer language is set to Chinese (zh_CN) and its region is set to China, Stata will automatically default to its Simplified Chinese setting. To change languages manually using Windows or Unix, select Edit > Preferences > User-interface language... using Mac, select Stata 16 > Preferences > User-interface language... You can also change the language using the set locale_ui command."

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