Reading foreign language text messages

Hi all,
    There may be a very simple solution to this but I just don't know how to make it work.  My wife and I both have Nokia's 6110 and 6210 (both Navigators) bought in Australia, so naturally we have set our phones in English.  Occasionally, we have friends send us txt messages with Chinese in them, and they appeared as small squares in the message.  I wonder how can we make our phones see those characters automatically, without messing up the English also contained in the message?  Is there some settings that we must do in our phones, or need to download something from PC Suite?
    Advice much appreciated.

android's reply isn't exactly correct, I'm afraid.
And getting the Chinese as MMS will only work if the sender doesn't send the text as Chinese, but actually goes through the trouble of making a graphical image (.gif, .png or .jpg file) where the Chinese is sent as a picture, not as text.
You can add Chinese support by installing new system/default font files with Chinese characters:
http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack/2007/05/changing_fonts_.html
You can also use applications like Psiloc Crystal Chinese:
http://shop.psiloc.com/en/Application,262329,Psiloc+Crystal+Chinese
Other than that, you'd need a phone produced for a Chinese speaking country/region (then you'd get a phone with Chinese language/font support in the firmware).
Message Edited by petrib on 02-Feb-2009 12:32 PM

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