The developer contacted me an hour ago and the news is good.......
This is what he said on the steam forum.
"Currently the fonts used by the game don't support chinese, japanese or korean characters unfortunately =/ There are also a few other limitations, like cyrillic or greek characters not working on signs, for example.
However, this should be fixed with the next update If it still doesn't work then, please let me know"
So with what Red has now told me, translation of Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still be completed but will not be released until after the update and after testing........