You only need "language kit compatible" software - which is important for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indic languages. Localized software, in Apple's definition, is software that interacts with the user in the appropriate languages within the application. Example: Traditional Chinese Simple Text. When using language kits, the interaction with the system is still in English - assuming that the kit was installed on a US system. AS to web browsers - David Herren pointed this out recently - with multilingual Internet Access nstalled (available on the 8.5 System Disk) reading the above mentioned languages is possible in most browsers. Writing still requires the language kit installtion. Reading Russian, Arabic, etc. is possible with installed kits, not possible yet with Multilingual Access. (Apparently Apple did not get this stuff done on time, since some essential parts are already availabla on the CD....) Otmar Foelsche