[kendykong]

hi,

Can anyone tell me how to display Chinese on a 2012 X3?

Thanks,

[ecsw]

I would also love to find out answer for this.

Not necessary the whole thing, but just the general iDrive menu items to display in different languages.

[intercoms]

My 2015 x3 displays Chinese (unicode characters) song name, artist, albums,file names correctly on the Nav screen. However the dash lcd cannot display Chinese characters (squares shown)

[Mingstar88]

our 2011 cannot display chinese at all. all squares
freaking $5000 honda can display them
smh..

[fantasy86]

My 2013 x3 with pro Nav also displays Chinese on the Nav unit but not head up display. Strangely models in Asian could have Chinese displayed on HUD too. Would be interested to find out how!

[mge92]

^ models in China and Hong Kong and certain other countries like Japan have a separate different Idrive software and hardware allowing for the different characters from the chinese and japanese language to display on both the idrive and speedometer and heads-up

[fantasy86]

Originally Posted by mge.92

^ models in China and Hong Kong and certain other countries like Japan have a separate different Idrive software and hardware allowing for the different characters from the chinese and japanese language to display on both the idrive and speedometer and heads-up

I wonder if Chinese can be displayed on the HUD via a software tweak?

[mge92]

^ I am not sure but I know that the head unit is different because I tried to code a british BMW which was imported into hong kong to update the maps and found out in doing so that in order to put hong kong maps i had to replace the whole head unit because BMW has three different head units for different countries.

[JSY]

I'd be just happy with the system being able to display my mp3 song titles that are in other languages - such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese...

[mge92]

try checking this forum out http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=646514

[X3ray]

Originally Posted by mge92

try checking this forum out http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=646514

After reading this post, I still can't figure out what coding are needed. Has anyone managed to do it?

KOMBI -> 3008 PIA_Einheiten -> Funktionen -> Sprache -> china_traditionell / werte 09

Is this the only coding I need?