Rick Rosinski wrote:
> I have just upgraded to KDE 2.1 (and QT 2.2.4), and I noticed some
> changes in how things looked.  I noticed that the fonts were the
> Console defaults.  I tried changing them to what I had before, and
> after applying the changes and restarting KDE, I saw that they
> reverted back to the consol defaults.  I also noticed that Netscape
> has solid blocks for what used to show as real text on the toolbars,
> etc.  Netscape isn't that important, but I want to be able to change
> the fonts to whatever I need.  I am using fonts that I installed via
> xfstt.  That all worked fine in KDE 2.0.1.
 
Hmm.. I remember reading about this happening to some other people.  I
*think* that the fix was to explicitely set the charset.

Try this:
1) Open up the control center
2) Go to Personalization->Country & Language
3) Select iso8859-1 as the charset
4) Click Apply

You may have to restart KDE to see if it makes a difference.
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