centos 5的都是安装fonts-chinese 和fonts-ISO8859的就可以支持中文了。
1. 有yum 源，直接安装
[root@ehrtest bin]# yum groupinstall chinese-support
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
ftp://172.16.17.177/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on ftp://172.16.17.177/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'connect() timed out!')
Trying other mirror.
Setting up Group Process
Package cjkuni-uming-fonts-0.2.20080216.1-35.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Package ibus-table-cangjie-1.2.0.20100210-1.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Package wqy-zenhei-fonts-0.9.45-3.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Package ibus-table-erbi-1.2.0.20090901-8.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Package ibus-table-wubi-1.2.0.20090715-8.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Package Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-zh-CN-4-1.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Package Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-zh-TW-4-2.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Package cjkuni-ukai-fonts-0.2.20080216.1-35.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ibus-chewing.x86_64 0:1.3.5.20100714-4.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libchewing >= 0.3.2-16 for package: ibus-chewing-1.3.5.20100714-4.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libchewing.so.3()(64bit) for package: ibus-chewing-1.3.5.20100714-4.el6.x86_64
---> Package ibus-pinyin.x86_64 0:1.3.8-1.el6 will be installed
---> Package kde-l10n-Chinese.noarch 0:4.3.4-5.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: kde-l10n = 4.3.4-5.el6 for package: kde-l10n-Chinese-4.3.4-5.el6.noarch
---> Package kde-l10n-Chinese-Traditional.noarch 0:4.3.4-5.el6 will be installed
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kde-l10n.noarch 0:4.3.4-5.el6 will be installed
---> Package libchewing.x86_64 0:0.3.2-27.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
ibus-chewing x86_64 1.3.5.20100714-4.el6 RHEL6-Server-Package 64 k
ibus-pinyin x86_64 1.3.8-1.el6 RHEL6-Server-Package 1.1 M
kde-l10n-Chinese noarch 4.3.4-5.el6 RHEL6-Server-Package 3.3 M
kde-l10n-Chinese-Traditional
noarch 4.3.4-5.el6 RHEL6-Server-Package 2.3 M
Installing for dependencies:
kde-l10n noarch 4.3.4-5.el6 RHEL6-Server-Package 13 k
libchewing x86_64 0.3.2-27.el6 RHEL6-Server-Package 1.5 M
Transaction Summary
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Install 6 Package(s)
Total download size: 8.3 M
Installed size: 27 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
[root@ehrtest ~]# rpm -ivh system-config-language-1.3.4-6.el6.noarch.rpm
warning: system-config-language-1.3.4-6.el6.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c105b9de: NOKEY
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:system-config-language ########################################### [100%]
当然yum install system-config-language 也可以
然后xpassive 开启，xshell 下面命令system-config-language 就会弹出窗口设置支持中文，重新登录就可以了。 如果还有乱码很有可能是字体缺少
