Hi, as adviced by Mike I set my encoding to en_US.UTF-8. I can happily type chinese character, and print it. (Open Office can't be used for SCIM?) but the problem is, I CAN open document with chinese character from my old SuSE installation, but CAN NOT print it. I believe it's because in the past I used something like zh_cn.gb2312. is there anyway I can read & print my old file. or, is there any web site I can read about all the chinese problem & how to fix it in SuSE 9.1. thanks. =========================================================================================== "Gabung INSTANIA, dapatkan XENIA. Daftar di www.telkomnetinstan.com, langsung dapat akses Internet Gratis.. Dan ..ikuti "Instan Smile" berhadiah Xenia,Tour S'pore, Komputer,dll, info hub : TELKOM Jatim 0-800-1-467826 " ===========================================================================================