Hi, I am trying to use UTF-8 as the the locale environment under SuSE 8.0. I have some problematic areas where I have not find a solution yet. Hence I need assistance This is what I have under $HOME/.profile export LANG="turkish" export LC_CTYPE="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_NUMERIC="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_TIME="POSIX" export LC_COLLATE="POSIX" export LC_MONETARY="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_MESSAGES="en_US" export LC_PAPER="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_NAME="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_ADDRESS="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_TELEPHONE="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_MEASUREMENT="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_IDENTIFICATION="tr_TR.utf8" Under KDE-> Control Center -> Personalization -> Country and language I have Country as Turkey language as English. I did not install kde-i18n related packages as I do not use the system other than English, however I do create documents in Turkish and I type using the Turkish keyboard. 1) When I type locale charmap I get UTF-8 so my understanding is I am using UTF-8 2) I use "utf8xterm" shell script that comes with shtools-2002.01.30-39 and a) I can type all the turkish characters in the Xterm environment created by this script b) I can use Vim and type the Turkish characters ş (scedilla) ğ (gbreve) ı (idotless) İ (Iabovedot) hence I can use Mutt and type these characters and read them. c) same is true if I just open a konsole with KDE d) When I use "xev" pressing the keys scedila gbreve idotless Iabovedot produces empty. So just to test I made a symbolink link under /usr/lib/locale for tr_TR.UTF-8 which is pointing to tr_TR.utf8. When I export tr_TR.UTF-8 for LC_CTYPE and use "xev" this time I get back the desired output. However this causes Netscape 4.79 to behave strange and I can not use Netscape. e) if LC_CTYPE is tr_TR.utf8 then under emacs I can not type the scedilla, idotless, gbreve, Iabovedot. I have the mule-ucs package installed but still no hope. I tried with setting emacs language environment to turkish but no. There must be something I need to tweak. However I just use emacs for Docbook editing and thats all so I do not know the internals . So in short tp rephrase what do I have to do to have a proper UTF-8 environment which will enable me to type read in Turkish but provide me all the menus and system messages in English Thanks -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx