Is it okay to write in English (or German) in this list? Most of you will find my English easier to read than my Japanese ;-) . 返事は日本語でも結構 です。 I have updated a computer from SuSE 8.1 to 9.1 (new installation), and since that time I cannot write Japanese characters in KDE-based programs. Japanese input is okay in Openoffice-Writer 1.1, Opera 7.50, and gjiten, but when I try to write Japanese in KMail, Kate, or a KDE console, the following happens: When I press the Kanji key, the conversion window opens. When I type, katakana appears. When I press <space>, katakana is converted to kanji. So far fine. But when I press <enter>, the Japanese characters disappear, they are not inserted into the text. This is not a font problem. I can see Japanese characters in KMail, and I can paste Japanese characters into Kate and into a console. "cannastat -v" shows that USED_CX is increased if I convert Japanese characters in Opera etc., but it is not increased if I try to convert Japanese characters in Kate, KMail etc. I have LANG, LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL set to ja_JP in the YaST system environment, in ./profile and also in /etc/X11/xim (just to make sure). I tried the same with ja_JP.UTF-8, it doesn't work either. /etc/hosts.canna had "localhost" and "unix" entries only. I added "<MyHost>:root,herrmann" -> no improvement. "ps -eF" shows: ... /usr/sbin/cannaserver -u wnn -r /var/lib/canna ... kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna This looks okay to me, though I am not sure about "wnn". (?) I am using SuSE 9.0 with a recent update, canna 3.6p3-127 kinput 3.1-184 kdebase3 3.1.4-52 The computer is a 2.3-GHz pentium 4 desktop. I have the same system (Suse 9.0 with the same packages, the locale partly in English and German, same messages from "ps -eF") running on a 600-MHz notebook with no problem. I have almost the same system (SuSE 9.0 without the updates) running on an old 100-MHz pentium desktop, also without problem (well, it's slow ... ;-) ). As long as SuSE 8.1 was running on the new machine, there was also no problem there. Does anyone know or guess why my Japanese input is not working on that computer with those programs? Or what can I check, and what can I try? Hopeful, Michael