Hallo, I did as described below but the situation is as before: On seme web pages I can't see the "Umlaute" but just nothing or funny squres. I also created from scratch a new user and tried out there: Same behaviour. Maybe a I have to chance something globally? Ulrich Groh
When you start your konqueror and ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc does not exist, open the font setting dialog of konqueror and you will see that the Japanese fonts "Kochi Gothic" and "Kochi Mincho" are set. *But*, for some strange reason these settings are not yet active, other fonts are used, which work. As soon as you change *anything* in the setup and click on "Apply", the settings (including these font settings) become active and the Umlauts disappear because these Japanese fonts unfortunately don't have Umlauts and Qt apparently doesn't realize that these fonts are unsuitable for Latin1 text (Qt bug).
Now these settings are also saved to ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc, which means that you have the same broken settings when you start konqueror again.
Solution: =========
Set up other fonts in the konqueror settings, for example "Nimbus Sans L" or "Luxi Sans" instead of "Kochi Gothic" and "Nimbus Roman No9 L" or "Luxi Serif" instead of "Kochi Mincho". Then Qt will use these fonts for Latin1. Qt will correctly recognize that these fonts are not suitable for Japanese and will fallback to other fonts for Japanese according to the rules in /etc/X11/qtrc or ~/.qt/qtrc respectively. In the SuSE default settings in /etc/X11/qtrc, "Kochi Mincho" is the first replacement for the serif European fonts and "Kochi Gothic" is the first replacement for the sans-serif European fonts mentioned above. Therefore, "Kochi Gothic" and "Kochi Mincho" will still be used for Japanese and you will see both German and Japanese correctly.
Some more explanation about the Qt font substitutions is here:
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/kde-font-setup.html
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