How to display characters in (virtualbox) TTY?

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox, but can't get Chinese chars to display correctly. Here's what chars that should be Chinese look like:

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I've done everything I could, including:

sudo apt-get -y install `check-language-support -l zh_CN`

Set /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local to

zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

And change /etc/default/locale.

What should I do then?

I don't think the TTY consoles support characters as they are supposed to be for emeregency use or something. You could install a light desktop such as Xfce or LXDE and use a terminal emulator to get character support. — Wilf, Jul 20 '15 at 14:57
Also see http://askubuntu.com/questions/23610/how-to-enable-unicode-support-in-a-tty — chaskes, Jul 20 '15 at 15:03
I'm not sure but support may be available https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Previewing_and_testing http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.2/chapter07/console.html — Wilf, Aug 04 '15 at 13:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Aug 08 '15 at 06:29

Madhusudhanan

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 06 '15 at 19:38

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Just reconfigure your console:

sudo dpkg --reconfigure console-setup

edited Sep 06 '15 at 19:38

Eric Carvalho

answered Sep 06 '15 at 14:35

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