Chinese characters in form input

FormsCentral appears to permit me to enter Chinese characters into the form template itself.
It seems to permit only Latin characters to respond to the form.
Is that a limitation of FormsCentral, or is it a function of the language for which the browser or computer are set?
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Mike Stolp
China-USA Education Services LLC

Just wanted to post a quick update. We just expanded our language to support 12 new languages. You can read more here.
We support Japanese, but we don't officially support Chinese/Korean though they should work in most cases.
Randy

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