Hi Leon, Tks for your advice which worked for me. > This steps work for me as well. From the > descriptions, I think it is > because you may changed the encoding in KDE in RH8 > so that it keeps the > set encoding. > > Please add a new user (so that you have a fresh > .kde) and try again. > > Or rename your ~/.kde to ~/.kde.bak and test. $ rename ~/.kde ~/.kde.bak Copied and pasted a Chinese test document from Website to Kedit and saved the file as test-page.txt to ~/user/ Then closed and reopened the file. It is OK now, displaying the Chinese content correctly. Tks B.R. Stephen _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk