FWIW I am running KDE in English and am able to input Japanese in OpenOffice. Aside from locale settings you might need to change some settings in OpenOffice -- under Tools->Options->Language Settings you may need to enable Asian language support under Languages. I also needed to change the default font from Bitstream Vera Sans to a Japanese font under Text Document --> Basic Fonts (Asian) to make things visible. I have the following in my .i18n file: LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8" XIM=htt and: > rpm -qa | fgrep iii iiimf-emacs-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-protocol-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-server-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-client-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-gtk-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-client-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-protocol-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-x-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-le-canna-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-csconv-11.4-46.1.svn1587 iiimf-docs-11.4-46.1.svn1587 > locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" I also have: GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim XMODIFIERS=@im=htt Though I don't appear to be explicitly setting them myself... Other than that the .i18n file gets caught so httx & friends get fired up when I first log in... On Sunday 11 July 2004 21:43, morpheus wrote: > Yes, that works, but what I really wanted was to run OpenOffice in > English, since the Japanese translations are not so great... > Well, I can live with the Japanese menus when I need to create Japanese > documents. > But, if anyone knows how to get this to work in KDE using English > locale, please let me know. > Cheers, > James >