***original message*** This doesn't answer your question, but I think that you'd like to know. I have been using Fedora Core 3 with KDE 3.x for a few months now, and I find that the hebrew support is excellent. Much better even than on Windows. I shift-space from language to language, and I have an indicator on the task bar. I haven't seen any backwards hebrew yet, even on the internet. my files do come out with the extension on the right side, ???????.txt but I never felt that that was weird. And what is nice, in konquerer, all my files are aligned to the right. Dotan Hi Dotan, Could you tell me what (kind of) packages you installed to even have right-aligned files in Konqueror? Is the basic language of your system Hebrew now? greetings, Herman