After having it for the 5th time ... (KDE 2.0.0, KDE 2.0.1, KDE 2.1Beta ...) System default locale is set to Russian (LC_*, LANG == ru, LANGUAGE=ru:de:en). New user starts KDE for the first time (~/.kde does not exist). What happens, is: - some messages (initial greeting, menus) come up in Russian - BUT looking in KDE config, country/language are set to "C", charset is "ASCII" - which means, all Russian messages are displayed as "???????" Why, WHY does not KDE takes default settings from environment variables? And if it ignores them - why, WHY does it try to display some mesages - what is important, menus - in Russian with charset set to ASCII? BTW after updating to KDE from Cooker, I've got two Trash's - one in English and on in Russian. The Russian one can be deleted; the English one not. -andrej Have a nice DOS! B >>