From: "Dave Gutteridge"
But if I understand this correctly, this would cause the interface of that program to be in Japanese as well. The only thing I want to make Japanese is my input. So, for example, when I use Firefox in Windows, all the menus and buttons are in English, but when I type a search into Google, I can do so with English or Japanese characters at my discretion.
My experience may not be relevant as its FC4 rather than CentOS, but I hope it may help.
I have a Fedora Core 4 machine which has an English UI but allows a choice of English and/or Japanese input.
I can quite happily switch between inputting in English and Japanese using the iimf. I followed the instructions here http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/i18n/iiimf-faq.html
When I have time I could re-install CentOS4 and try to achieve the same level of functionality
Ian