I used fedora core 3 with kde 3.3 and I had no problem. Now I siwtched to ubuntu 5.04 with kde 3.4.0 and I can't see accented characters from the kde applications. Do I have to do some particular configuration? Do I have to install some particular pakage? I selected italian as system language and here is the list of my packages: ii kde-core 42ubuntu1 The K Desktop Environment (Core) ii kde-i18n-it 3.4.0+cvs20040 Italian (it) internationalized (i18n) files ii kde-style-lips 1.0-2ubuntu4 The Lipstik style for KDE ii kdeaddons 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 add-on plugins and applets provided with KDE ii kdeaddons-kfil 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 KDE file dialog plugins for text files and f ii kdeadmin 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE Administration tools metapackage ii kdeadmin-kfile 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE File dialog plugins for deb and rpm file ii kdeartwork-mis 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 various multimedia goodies released with KDE ii kdeartwork-sty 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 widget styles released with KDE ii kdeartwork-the 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 icon themes released with KDE ii kdeartwork-the 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 window decoration themes released with KDE ii kdebase 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE Base metapackage ii kdebase-bin 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE Base (binaries) ii kdebase-data 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE Base (shared data) ii kdebase-kio-pl 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE I/O Slaves ii kdelibs 3.4.0-0ubuntu3 KDE core libraries metapackage ii kdelibs-bin 3.4.0-0ubuntu3 KDE core binaries ii kdelibs-data 3.4.0-0ubuntu3 KDE core shared data ii kdelibs4 3.4.0-0ubuntu3 KDE core libraries ii kdenetwork 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 KDE Network metapackage ii kdenetwork-fil 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 KDE Network Filesharing Configuration ii kdenetwork-kfi 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 torrent plugin for kfile ii kdepasswd 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE password changer ii kdepim-kio-plu 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE pim I/O Slaves ii kdeprint 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE Print ii kdesktop 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 KDE Desktop ii kdevelop 2.1.5.1-7 An IDE for Unix/X11 ii kdevelop-data 2.1.5.1-7 Platform independent data files for the kdev can anyone help? tanks ! Licia. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.