Thanks for your reply :-) I've heard that Emacs 22 already supports utf8 Chinese encoding. I've tried the CVS version of Emacs 22(because Emacs 22 in Gentoo is still masked), but the result is the same. And if I use Emacs 22 then I will have to reinstall all the add-on since they are compiled by Emacs 23. And I am wondering why it works fine before the recompilation even without any configuration about Chinese, but after that I can't get it work as well as before.