Hello, I've just subscribed to this list, but noticed that there is a related thread going on right now, about adding Japanese language capability. I went through Mike Fabian's pages (http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/suse-cjk.html), but either I missed out on some parts or I didn't understand things properly. I have SuSE 8.2 personal installed, using KDE. I installed canna and kinput2. I would like to type Japanese text in OpenOffice and also in Web Browsers (Konqueror and Mozilla). The system should not run entirely in Japanese; it should be possible to switch from German to Japanese keyboard with hotkeys in the same session - ideally. (I've just migrated from Windows a few weeks ago, so my thinking about these things is still rather Windows-ish, I'm afraid.) Also, I have user-specific .Xmodmap-configurations designed to facilitate input of certain Unicode characters from the Latin Extended Additional ranges, and these should remain usable. I also tried setting Japanese as additional language in KDE's control center, but I can't add Japanese in the locale "Germany" that I've selected, and when I activate "Enable keyboard layouts", the user-specific .Xmodmap doesn't work anymore. From what I've read on Mike's pages, I understand how I would configure the system to run completely in Japanese, that is, how the X server would start up with Japanese as the basic locale. However, I don't yet get what I have to do to have Japanese input enabled as an alternative configuration that can be activated from within the same instance of X. I'd appreciate any help, Best regards, Birgit Kellner