[William Lisowski]

And what happens when you try for example "zh_Hans" as I suggested in post #12?

You might consider reporting this problem to Stata Technical Support and asking for their advice.

https://www.stata.com/support/

[Yao Zhao]

. clear

. import excel "/Users/zhaoyao/Documents/summary report/import this data to stata.
> xlsx", sheet("???1") firstrow locale("zh")
locale zh not found

[Yao Zhao]

Another person faces the same question as me. We both use Stata 14 on Mac.

[Yao Zhao]

Problem Solved.

When I use Stata in my university's computer, the problem does not exist at all.

[Wenbo Zou]

Hi, I encountered the same problem with my macbook pro, and have no university computer to try solving this problem right now.
Wondering whether you ever figured out what was the problem.