hashao> If it is failed, locale will fall back to C. That is bad. hashao> So this is the problem.
But the output by $locale in crxvt-gb shows LANG=zh_CN.GB2312 LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_NUMERIC="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_TIME="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_COLLATE="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_MONETARY="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_MESSAGES="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_PAPER="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_NAME="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_ADDRESS="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_TELEPHONE="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_CN.GB2312" LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB2312 It seems OK. hashao> try export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GB2312 and hashao> unset LC_ALL and LANG. I don't know why you LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB2312 hashao> is failed. It should be OK under potato. When LC_ALL and LANG hashao> failed, it is most likely that your /usr/share/locale/zh_CN hashao> don't have all the neccessary locale properties. $ls /usr/share/locale/zh_CN LC_MESSAGES $ls /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES ee.mo gedit.mo gnome-libs.mo gnome-utils.mo gtk+.mo wget.mo error.mo gettext.mo gnome-media.mo gnorpm.mo mc.mo fileutils.mo gnome-core.mo gnome-objc.mo gnumeric.mo sh-utils.mo gdm.mo gnome-games.mo gnome-pim.mo grep.mo textutils.mo Something losts? hashao> PS: are you sure the Chinput is up and running? In your other hashao> mail, it looks like chinput is not running. check with 'ps' please. Good point. I thought it will start automatically after it was installed. When I type command chinput& the following message comes up $ Chinput Version 3.0.2 -- XIM Server Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Basic: Cannot open font -default-song-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-gb2312.1980-0\n Does it mean the font is not available? Wen -- | This message was re-posted from [email protected] | and converted from gb2312 to big5 by an automatic gateway.

