I have already installed Chinese fonts $ sudo apt-cache search chinese $ sudo apt-get install ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ... 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.