I compiled and installed QT 3.3.1, and that improves things quite a bit. A suitable Cyrillic font is now selected, even without adding the .fonts.conf lines that Keith suggested. There are still some minor issues (for instance: a serifed Cyrillic font is chosen in the sans-serif context of the Quickbrowser menu), but the Chinese fonts definitely do not rear their Cyrillic heads any more. Another remaining problem is that QT still doesn?t fetch single glyphs from other fonts, so ?br?hm?? still has its empty boxes. But I?m quite happy with the overall improvement, thanks for suggesting the QT upgrade. Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington