* This is the first time I join a mailing list and if I do anything wrong here, please tell me * I bought SuSE 7.2 Pro several months ago and cannot get Traditional Chinese working in SuSE. This is my first Linux experience and now I have to keep Win98 (rather reluctantly) simply because I need to handle Chinese in my everyday work. I have read through Dr. Fabian's CJK notes for SuSE. It contains more SuSE CJK-specific information than anywhere else, but unfortunately I still cannot find what I need in it. The difficulty lies in the fact that there are too many variations of solutions to the same problem in newsgroups or other documents. So I am extremely confused especially I am quite new to Linux. Many suggestions are distribution-specific, so I cannot get much help there. I found the xcin-2.5 rpm (SuSE packaged) from somewhere (I couldn't remember where I got it) and installed it. Recently I want to test setting up the Chinese locale in a user account ($HOME/) and so I placed the following two lines in $HOME/.xinitrc: LC_ALL=zh_TW.Big5 LANG=zh_TW.Big5 (I don't actually want to set the kdm to use Chinese until I manage to get Chinese working on my system) and changed the country settings in KDE to tw; zh_TW.Big5; Big5 charset. What I get is all garbage (looks like a Chinese webpage displayed using Western codepage), but I can get Chinese to appear in GNOME, Netscape, Mozilla and many other programs that I suspect using gtk+. But I cannot see Chinese in qt-based programs. I have tried opening a terminal and check if the locale is correct. I typed "locale" in bash and it shows the values of those LC variables and all are already zh_TW.Big5. Then I tried to see if I can type any Chinese using xcin. I know it is an XIM server and the author of XIM said we need to configure the XIM clients to receive the input from xcin, but I simply don't know what to do. I tried the keystrokes "Ctrl-Space" but I cannot switch to Chinese input methods. All the default keystrokes simply don't work. May I ask if there are additional setup required? I have upgraded KDE to 2.2.1. The KDE i18n zh_TW package has also been installed. I have some Chinese fonts installed, so Mozilla and Netscape displays some Chinese webpages correctly. I have installed cxterm. It displays and I can enter Chinese properly in the terminal, so now at most I can see and type some Chinese in programs like vim and tin, but not konqueror, licq etc. May anyone offer me a helping hand? Thanks very much.