SuSE 8.1 and typing in foreign languages - some characters not sh owing up!

Hello! Quick question on typing in foreign languages... I've got a laptop with a US keyboard, and a docking unit with a UK keyboard. In KDE I've enabled UK and US English, as well as Russian and Romanian. If I open Kword or any other word processing program I can type in Russian, and even the UK keyboard entries (£works correctly. However, in Romanian I can't get any of the special characters. I even tried in Spanish and it didn't work. Romanian keyboard isn't much different than an English qwerty, except that the ', #, [, ] are dedicated to special characters, and a few other keys are switched around. Any suggestions? Cheers, MJR