You can use -filter "charset" to enable the input/output filter for CCE. CCE will
dynamically do the iconv conversion from charset to internal encoding(GB/Big5/JIS etc)
for input and the reverse conversion for output. CCE doesn't support Unicode
internally(due to huge fonts and other issues), but you can use "-filter UTF-8" to
let CCE support UTF8 console.
You can use vt-is-UTF8 and locale to decide if your Linux console is in UTF8 mode.
For example, if you install Mandrake 9.2(Chinese localization), it'll set the locale
to "zh_CN.UTF-8" and the console is in Unicode mode. Run CCE:
cce -filter UTF-8
Then you can display(try cal/date, etc) and input Chinese.