This is strange. I must've installed Suse wrong. When I switch the session language to English, I basically get everything in Japanese, but with a different (un-antialiased) font. Very ugly. Also, kinput2 isn't running, so I have to call any apps that I want to type Japanese with manually. My system is very unstable (also was with Redhat 8) and I'm trying to prove to some non-Japanese speakers in my office that Linux (or more specifically KDE) can handle a multilingual environment. Personally, I think it's lame hardware. One other thing though. I did notice that when I change the session language to English, and use the Unicode font on xterm, it's well-spaced and antialiased. Much easier to look at in general. Using the same font in Japanese won't fly. It's spacing is about double what it is in English and not really possible to use. Anyone know anything about that? Tx Paul