Sam Varshavchik wrote: > If I do something like this: > > LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim gedit > > Then in gedit I can switch to Chinese input with CTRL-SPACE. However, I > also get the Chinese locale -- all menu items and prompts are in Chinese. > > Is there any way to run an application in the default English locale, > en_US.UTF-8, but have Chinese input available via CTRL-space? LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim gedit should do what you want. Jens