My son came to visit. Of course I put a userid for him on the guest room computer (set to /sbin/nologin, like all the others but mine till he arrived; kept shutdown except for occasional updating, and with no access to the Net, wired nor wireless). Waste of effort: he's a permanent resident of Japan, and of course had to be able to do Japanese stuff, even for instance to cook, let alone telecommute. He brought his own laptop. So I'm wondering : what would I have had to do? Not uninstall Japanese from the never to be sufficiently accursed weeds, aka language packs, that sprout ever anew in Firefox. Obviously. If as I think gmail is basically a web app, does that do it all? (His main if not only email address is there.) Or are there other things? Would he need all of the OS to run in Japanese? (He did grow up in this country, and his English is still as good as anyone's.) I don't even know if this is a Fedora question, or a linux question, or something else. I know two or three words of spoken Japanese, and he doesn't run linux ... Can I even do anything without having to get a special keyboard? (The present guest room computer is a laptop -- a T30 Thinkpad -- btw.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8; Alpine 0.99999, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.24, Firefox 2.0 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list