Article - CS35525
How to input/show Chinese characters and display user interface in Chinese in Creo Parametric
Modified: 24-Oct-2025
Applies To
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 2.0 to Wildfire 5.0
Description
- What are the prerequisites to input Chinese characters and display user interface in Chinese
- How to input Chinese characters and show user interface in Chinese
- When retrieving a drawing with notes in Chinese, they are displayed as boxes
- How to display Chinese notes in drawing with English version
- How to use Chinese characters in a drawing
- How to keep English UI although set lang to chs in *.psf file.
- The traditional Chinese language is installed, the Chinese language pack Chinese_translation is included in the startup command, and the environment variable PRO_LANG is set to cht, but I don’t know why most of the menus are still displayed in English
- The software does not recognize Chinese
- The text part of the drawing frame can be displayed, and the box will be displayed.
- the language of Creo is not fixed, sometimes Chinese sometimes English, want to fix the language to Chinese,
- Creo Parametric does not support Chinese simplified user interface
- We got the error information in the following when we selecting the Chinese simplified :
License Warning
Features Not Obtained:
Chinese_Translation
Click here to visit Creo Guided License & Installation Troubleshooter page - Unable to use Chinese version Creo Parametric
- Open the engineering drawing, Chinese characters are displayed as garbled characters, and there are related Chinese fonts FONTS and formats files under the path
- Changed Creo Parametric 4.0 interface from English to Chinese
- After the creo software is installed, the page is in English, and I want to switch to Chinese
- Chinese characters appear as boxes when Creo opens a drw drawing file
- Chinese characters appear as boxes when create a sketch text using font_3d font in the English UI
- Menu still be English even Chinese_Translation license is configured in Creo Parametric
- Set the Creo Parametric user interface language to Chinese
- Need to display text in 2D drawings in Simplified Chinese by default, but also need to display Creo Parametric menu language in English
- we have switched to the license called “Creo Advanced Design Global”. The UI shows in Chinese. How to switch to English. Do we have language options or add an environment variable to the PSF-File
- Imported dwg file show incorrect Chinese texts in creo, even though the lang environment has been set
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