Can Safari from Iphone support "Chinese" character?

You can't change any settings. The iPhone does support Chinese display, but whether all encodings will work is not clear (UTF-8 certainly works), and if the encoding is not right or missing, there is no way to correct it. Would you provide the url of a site which is not working for you?

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/06/iphone-language-capabilities-seem.html

http://ol.mingpao.com/cfm/Star3.cfm?Issue=20070915

Thanks! I think there is wrong code at the top of this page (use View > View Source to see the stuff before the < html> tag which should be at the very top) which prevents Safari from seeing the charset. You may not notice it from a full computer if your browser is set to Big5 as the default in the preferences, but mine in not, and if I open that page in normal OS X Safari it will not display correctly until I fix the charset manually via View > Text Encoding. Unfortunately iPhone Safari has no way to make that correction.

As a test, can you see this one correctly?

http://www.bcc.com.tw/

I tried "hacking" my iPhone to put hindi fonts on my phone, but it didn't help me with the BBC hint site. So ithink it is going to take more than just the fonts.

That being said, it looks like that page doesn't use unicode - maybe? All the other pages I've visited just show empty squares. The garbage letters make me think it is using so custom font. Can't view source from the iPhone.

So ithink it is going to take more than just the fonts.

Yes, I've seen some attempts at Hebrew too which indicate the OS lacks more than just the fonts for some of the scripts it doesn't yet support.

that page doesn't use unicode

It's in Big5, but bad code at the top. Can you see this one?

http://www.bcc.com.tw/

Yes that page looks like Cinese - for all I know since I don't speak Cinese!

I'm really annoyed that apple always seems to ignore the languages I'm interested in. Well if the history of OSX is any indication hindi and arabic will come along eventually. I hope.

Yes that page looks like Cinese

Thanks! That at least confirms the browser can handle UTF-8 and Big5, not sure about GB.

Yes, the iPhone Safari can handle GB.
I can see the text on china.com/zh_cn correctly and view source of the page shows that it use GB code. china.com/zh_tw will show the same page in Big5, all text looks fine too.

apple.com/japan uses UTF-8, japan.cnet.com uses shift-JIS encoding, yahoo.co.jp uses euc-jp encoding, the iPhone displays okay on all three.

Even on a computer, it is unreasonable to require the user to manually switch the encoding on the Browser level. The page should have all the declaration done correctly in its header, then the browser can take car of itself. Some websites just need to fire their webmasters.