What do you see instead of the Chinese characters?
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Even I don't read Chinese I followed the wiki. For you may be easier to read the Chinese wiki.
But for my daughter I set in her ~/.bash.profile
export LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8"
and installed the fonts. Then if you're using KDE and/or libreoffice it would be nicer to install its fonts too.
For input you may find ibus and its different input methods.
I am not sure what causes the overheating. Where should I start to troubleshoot?
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