Tuesday January 10 2006 08:12, Mikko Harjula wrote to All: MH> I'm running KDE on Fedora Core 4, kernel MH> 2.6.14-0.10.rrt.rhfc4.ccrma MH> (i.e. Planet CCRMA patched FC4 kernel, but the same problem occurs MH> with the FC4 kernel too): I used to type the ä, ö etc. on DOS, OS/2 and still do in, Windows using Alt-keys and High ASCII. Never been able to do that in Linux under any version, either on the console or in any application. Changing the language system-wide is out of the question, since en_US is required everywhere else. Kari Suomela KARICO Business Services Toronto, ON Canada http://www.karico.ca ... Money is the root of all wealth.