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