windows 7 - Chinese Characters in Stata

Question

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).

Answer 1

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.