On Saturday 01 February 2003 16:22, Marco Laverdière wrote: > Hi to all, > > Just did an upgrade du KDE 3.1 on my Debian mixed system. Everything went > fine, except for fonts. Some carachters (like: ") now appear as little > squares (like this: ). This happens wether the AA fonts option is > checked or not in the Configuration Center and wathever fonts type I > choose. I'm using KDE in French but this doesn't seem to be the problem si > French caracters (é, è, â, ...) appears fine. > > I know it may be a KDE specific problem, but other people who did the > upgrade do KDE 3.1 on other distros told me that they're not experiencing > this.. Could this be a problem with an encoding option or package > misconfigured? > > Any help would be appreciate. > > Thanks. > > Marco Laverdière > Debian newbie!
I had the same problem. It was because of wrong permissions from several font files in /usr/X11/lib/X11/font. They weren't accesible for ordinary users. Only for root. Check if root kan use the fonts then check the permissions. -- Johnny Geling
