My scim-m17n troubles were the result of a bug in (x)Ubuntu 6.06. With Ubuntu 5.10 it worked just fine, though. To be sure, I tested it with Fedora Core 5 too. FC5 works perfectly after editing only a single text file. Apparently then, the latest Ubuntu is not entirely scim-proof. This is not a good thing for such a popular distro, that claims to be multilingual. Which I btw otherwise tend to like. [Suse is, needless to say, still the best choice as far as Scim is concerned.] thanks for the help, Herman