[Nice X-Face :-) ] Norbert Koch <n.koch(a)delta-ii.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: I don't think this is fatal. You might. If you are depending upon XIM for data entry, things will be highly broken. I see. Could you possibly narrow down what went wrong/changed so we could document it? The one environment setting related to locale I've had problems with is `*inputMethod: kinput2'. This appears to cause any Motif/Lesstif-using application to coredump. Kterm, XEmacs, etc. deal with it O.K. of course.