Asus RT-86U blocked in Chinese language

[Jean-No]

AHHHHH ... well yes, it makes sense; I'm really new to Terminal, and I don't really master all of these subtleties
So I redid the manipulation, the French is displayed instead of CN; I reboot and return from Chinese

ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC86U 384.17_0 Sun Apr 26 02:28:53 UTC 2020

jeanno@RT-AC86U-2280:/tmp/home/root# cd /jffs/scripts

jeanno@RT-AC86U-2280:/jffs/scripts# ./Dictionary_MSG.sh

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

ubi:rootfs_ubifs         79016     65400     13616  83% /

devtmpfs                220096         0    220096   0% /dev

tmpfs                   220208       524    219684   0% /var

tmpfs                   220208      1656    218552   1% /tmp/mnt

mtd:bootfs                4480      3356      1124  75% /bootfs

tmpfs                   220208      1656    218552   1% /tmp/mnt

mtd:data                  8192       604      7588   7% /data

tmpfs                   220208      1656    218552   1% /tmp

/dev/mtdblock8           49152      2872     46280   6% /jffs

ubi:rootfs_ubifs         79016     65400     13616  83% /www/CN.dict


Done.

jeanno@RT-AC86U-2280:/jffs/scripts# Connection to 192.168.50.1 closed by remote host.

Connection to 192.168.50.1 closed.

 

[ColinTaylor]

So I have a question. Do the radios adjust for all these different regions?

This is nothing to do with regions or the operation of the router. It's purely about the language displayed on the router's web pages.

 

[Martineau]

AHHHHH ... well yes, it makes sense; I'm really new to Terminal, and I don't really master all of these subtleties
So I redid the manipulation, the French is displayed instead of CN; I reboot and return from Chinese

ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC86U 384.17_0 Sun Apr 26 02:28:53 UTC 2020

jeanno@RT-AC86U-2280:/tmp/home/root# cd /jffs/scripts

jeanno@RT-AC86U-2280:/jffs/scripts# ./Dictionary_MSG.sh

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

ubi:rootfs_ubifs         79016     65400     13616  83% /

devtmpfs                220096         0    220096   0% /dev

tmpfs                   220208       524    219684   0% /var

tmpfs                   220208      1656    218552   1% /tmp/mnt

mtd:bootfs                4480      3356      1124  75% /bootfs

tmpfs                   220208      1656    218552   1% /tmp/mnt

mtd:data                  8192       604      7588   7% /data

tmpfs                   220208      1656    218552   1% /tmp

/dev/mtdblock8           49152      2872     46280   6% /jffs

ubi:rootfs_ubifs         79016     65400     13616  83% /www/CN.dict


Done.

jeanno@RT-AC86U-2280:/jffs/scripts# Connection to 192.168.50.1 closed by remote host.

Connection to 192.168.50.1 closed.

If the language is Chinese then you need to identify wich sequence works

cd /jffs/scripts

umount /www/CN.dict

sh -x ./init-start

Is the language now in French?, if not try

cd /jffs/scripts[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT]
[FONT=Georgia][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)]
[LEFT]
umount /www/CN.dict

sh -x ./Dictionary_MSG.sh

​

You may have to clone 'init-start' to 'services-start' as perhaps attempting to map the 'FR.dict' file from 'init-start' occurs too early in the boot process, so delaying it to 'services-start' is the solution.

see Wiki User scripts for usage of the various system scripts

 

[coxhaus]

This is nothing to do with regions or the operation of the router. It's purely about the language displayed on the router's web pages.

OK. So this is a router which should be run in China but you can choose different languages. I guess I was thinking too high level about the radios.

 

[Martineau]

This is nothing to do with regions or the operation of the router. It's purely about the language displayed on the router's web pages.

I believe he is alluding to the potential interference caused in the radio spectrum though inappropriate deployment of ASUS routers outside of their intended home region/market.

NOTE: I set up several Hong Kong sourced routers for returning UK ex-pats (one even brought back a https://www.asus.com/Networking/4G-AC68U/ which I didn't touch!) but I recall there is/was a 'Radio Region' drop down which I ensured was to 'EU'