Well, it almost all works! KDE 2.2.2 and everything in Chinese (simplified). Even xcin is working like a charm. Did everything by the book now. I will also try CJK-LyX tomorrow. Today I don't have the guts... One problem remains: KOffice doesn't seem to like printing with GB encoded fonts though. Look at this screenshot: (Dunno if the chinese glyphs make sense, it's not me who needs that Chinese environment... :-) http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~arne.schmitz/desktop2.jpg The print preview and also the print itself is broken. Can I do something about it? European encoded text works fine, of course. And something else: Konqueror chooses gb1320 as default encoding for http://cn.yahoo.com, but the displayed page is empty! If I switch manually to gbk, everything looks fine. What's going on there? Arne -- You too can wear a nose mitten. [--- PGP key available on http://www.root42.de/ ---]