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rdoggsv

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From: /home

Registered: 2005-06-24

Posts: 79

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So you see little squares insted of your letters in KDE ???

Ok so i went like 2 hours to fix this , as i the forum there are lots of threads about this without the answer , i looked with fonts squares but nothing.

Here is the thing , i need the letters á é í ó ú and also ñ , so i had them for example in firefox , xchat , and other gtk based apps. But when it came down to kde they where blank squares , for example in kedit , kwrite , run app , etc.

the thing is because the locale is not well generated. so i went to the /etc/locale.gen and unncommented the lines with es_ES.utf8 , then afterthat i did locale-gen command , so that generated my en_ES.UTF-8 locale.

edited the line on rc.conf , to match that locale and that was it !! now i have all my keboard letters working on kde and every other app

thats it

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n0gabor

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From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

Re: So you see little squares insted of your letters in KDE ???

try to use a different font bitstream vera fonts works good in gnome (i think becouse runs as utf8), in kde special characters like őű... don't display good with them.

use the msfonts ttf package instead, verdana, arial fonts are goodlooking and display spec characters well.

hotsauce

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From: Ann Arbor

Registered: 2005-12-28

Posts: 125

Re: So you see little squares insted of your letters in KDE ???

Thanks for the fix, changing locales worked wonders for me in KDE

borge

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Registered: 2005-08-07

Posts: 10

Re: So you see little squares insted of your letters in KDE ???

My first try at Arch and the only thing (so far) I got stuck on was the ability to write Swedish characters in KDE applications but still having the KDE language to be english.

For quite some time I was able to enter Swedish characters (åäö) as part of the use name or password during the kdm login. Once KDE got up and runing all I got was dose small squares in place of the Swedish chars..

And yes, I didn't realize I had to reboot for the changes to /etc/rc.conf to take place, just restart X wasn't a smart move 

Oin

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Registered: 2005-09-02

Posts: 63

Re: So you see little squares insted of your letters in KDE ???

rdoggsv, you're a life saver!

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