Hi Ed, - snip - > > I can start Chinese Editing on login Session-Trad/Simplied Chinese. > > > > [Ctrl]+[Space] - switching between English and Chinese > > [Ctrl]+[Shift] - toggling "editing method" > > > > What I tried to find out is how to start editing Chinese on English > > locale (in English environment). I have been searchig around on > the > > Menu and unabled to find it > > I think you've been told this a few times...and it is working fine > for > me here. Your LANG environment variable *must* be set to en_US.UTF-8 > *prior* to X startup. Check to see what is in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" It is there. IIRC on FC2/FC3 to input Chinese on English locale I have to run first; # export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM; export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8; scim -d before starting the application. It was a little bid complicate. Would it be the same? TIA B.R. SL