Technical How can I configure my client so I can write Chinese characters?

[BoudiccaII]

It must be possible, because I see spammers using hanzi in chat. However, whether I use the data/EnGB or the data/ZhCN folder, I cannot *write* chinese when I switch language on my operating system (I play on both Ubuntu and Windows 10 on different pcs and on both I use a hotkey to switch keyboard configuration.) In the zhcn client I can read it just fine and even have all the maps and voices. But what do I need to do to type those characters? When I try it, my pinyin suggestions are all "1. ????, 2. ?????" etc.

I have searched the forum and found other people with similar problems but no solutions that hit the mark.

Thanks in advance.

[BoudiccaII]

Hello future forum searching friends... If you are also on Linux and you want to write characters from a different locale than your system, try a command like this:

LANG="zh_CN.UTF8" wine Wow.exe

This has allowed me to write Chinese characters in chat. I am sure it will work for other scripts the game supports like Japanese, Russian, or Korean.