Hi, In my opinion, internationalization of SuSE is far from complete. I used to install SuSE with English as the default language and have tried to use Korean as the second language. In various points, I was not quite successful since maybe SuSE-6.1. Now, with SuSE-10.0, I tried again after a while since I last tried. Still it is not smooth. This is what I did. Through YAST2, I changed a bunch of language environment from POSIX to en_US.UTF-8 except RC_LC_CTYPE, which I set to ko_KR.UTF-8. Then, I observed that firefox and many other programs (e.g., gaim) start very slowly. A command-line start up of firefox has revealed the following: Although I did not specify SCIM as my choice of the input method, firefox tried to do something with SCIM and "failed to initialize Panel Agent" five times before firefox gives up "initializing" and start normally. The message I got is like this: ---------c-----------c---------- firefox & [1] 16876 rodolfo:ghsong $ Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd... Loading simple Config module ... Creating backend ... Loading socket FrontEnd module ... Starting SCIM as daemon ... GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.1 Failed to initialize Panel Agent! GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.1 Failed to initialize Panel Agent! GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.1 Failed to initialize Panel Agent! GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.1 Failed to initialize Panel Agent! GTK IM Module SCIM: Cannot connect to Panel! -----c-------------c----------c-------------- It appears that firefox assumes that everyone is using SCIM. I don't know exactly what is meant by "initializing Panel Agent". Why does firefox do this? Secondly, command-line "locale -a" shows something like "en_US.utf8" etc rather than "en_US.UTF-8" etc which seems to be the legal entry in /etc/sysconfig/... through YAST2 of course. Is it normal? When I changed everything to ko_KR.eucKR, even the gnome's gdm gets slowed down terribly. I think it is because of the GTK thing, too. In this part of the world, en_US.ISO-8859-1 is not the only thing we need to care. Please help. Thank you very much Hugh (for SuSE).