Hi I have problems setting up my sytem. Normally I want to have german language, but since I'm living in China at the moment I also want to display simplified chinese texts properly and use sometimes chinese Inputmethods. I tried to set the variable RC_LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" and RC_LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF8" with this setting the chinese is displayed properly with simplified characters. But I have some problems with that: 1) Some applications e.g. java apps are now with chinese dialogs 2) many kde applications like konsole or konqueror will crash if they are automatically restarted after login with the following error: #7 0x40d97774 in XSetICValues () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #8 0x43f489b7 in QXIMInputContext::setXFontSet () from /usr/lib/qt3/plugins/inputmethods/libqxim.so #9 0x43f48ad1 in QXIMInputContext::setMicroFocus () from /usr/lib/qt3/plugins/inputmethods/libqxim.so #10 0x41a9c1f3 in QMultiInputContext::setMicroFocus () from /usr/lib/qt3/plugins/inputmethods/libqimsw-multi.so #11 0x407ea3c2 in QWidget::setMicroFocusHint () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #12 0x4094c969 in QLineEditPrivate::updateMicroFocusHint () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #13 0x4094fb74 in QLineEdit::focusInEvent () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #14 0x41259865 in KLineEdit::focusInEvent () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so.4 #15 0x408b46b9 in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #16 0x4095138a in QLineEdit::event () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #17 0x4417293c in QPtrStackDOM::NodeImpl::operator= () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkhtml.so.4 What can I do, so that everything is working properly? Thanks Florian -- There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.