Dear List, I have used SuSE 9.0 since October 2003 on my Thinkpad X30. The KDE Environment runs completely in UTF-8 so that I may use Japanese as well as German (Umlaute). My user account ist completely German. After the usual settings I can use Kinput2 with Canna in almost all applications (Konqueror, OpenOffice, Mozilla Firebird, KMail, GJiten etc.) I am now facing the problem, that Konqueror suddenly refuses to show Umlaute, no matter which page encoding is set. Even on the start page there are small dots instead of Umlaute. Needless to say, that I did not change any of the settings in the .profile and .xim files. Neither did I change the KDE font settings. The Japanese support still works fine. Such a sudden behaviour change happened already several times, both on my Thinkpad as well as on my desktop computer. Each time I was checking the user settings and the settings in the KDE Control Centre but could not find any difference. So far I could fix the problem only by creating a completely new user account. The only thing I could think of is the fact that I installed some DVD related software (Xine and friends) from Packman via YaST2. Also I did some manipulations in the /etc/fstab file. However, I cannot imagine, that this could influence the behaviour of Konqueror. Has anyone an idea, what could have went wrong? Many thanks in advance Matthias Seeger