Why is the language of flash 5 in chinese

There's a chinese version, just like there's a spanish version, etc

rockon_km,

Don't waste your time or money. Return it, sell it, or toss it. Flash 5 is history, and Macromedia doesn't exist anymore, it's now Adobe.

What are your plans for technical support should you encounter a problem. No one will be able to help you, because no one uses it anymore.

Recent versions are 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, CS3, and now CS4. What ever you develop with Flash 5, will not help you produce the things you see on the web today and it may not stand up the technology in the current versions of the Flash Player.

If you must use Version 5, you can try these steps, if those options existed back then.

1. To select the default languand and automatic language detection.
2. Select Window > Other Panels > Strings to open the Strings panel.
3. Click the Settings button to display the Settings dialog box.
4. In the Default language pop-up menu, select the language you want to use for the default language. This must be a language you have added as an available language.
5. If you want to enable automatic language detection, make sure that the Replace Strings Automatically at Runtime check box is selected.
6. Click OK
   Flash generates an ActionScript, which stores the language XML file paths. You can use it as a starting point for your own language detection script.

Here is the script, but it probably won't work for V5. Not much will.
import mx.lang.Locale;
Locale.setFlaName("<flaFileName>");
Locale.setDefaultLang("langcode");
Locale.addXMLPath("langcode", "url/langcode/flaname_langcode.xml");

Hope this helps.