thanks arch119, i think that is my pot- i was looking for sth sorta canned black-box but able get the job done, how-its not my business. i will try this on monday and let you know how it behaves. yeh, some bhaiyas experimented by installing their own hindi-language thing and as u said, i can see "हिंदी" in X-term in runlevel 5 (?), under the menu settings...sth like that. however it just sucked, some of the items in the menu of firefox also started to appear in "हिंदी" and if i wanted to save a web-page and give it my own name other than default, all the letters whatever i type in the file-save dialog box would also be in "हिंदी", from firefox, i could not save the images too with a english-script name. then i had to loose more than a day until i succeeded in recompiling firefox with some configuration changes. bhole-baba ko aashirbaadle the menu items are now always in english, WHATEVER locale i log in, even Nordic or German, but that is OK. in the hindi locale proper, or in any locale for that reason, i can view sajha, and the fonts also appear but the rendering is screwed up, believe-me, you can't read a sense outta 'em. samacharpatra - http://www.newsofnepal.com is still screwed up, even the nepalese type faces dont appear, it all looks like some weird cryptography. Nepalnews' weekly magazines are fine and perfect, quite surprisingly. anyway, thanks a lot, will report u later whatever happens keep rolling... i wil l times even the menu items in fi