Title: Setting fonts Subject: solving funny terminal font issues People who do not use English as their primary language have to deal with this a lot, and thus have more experience. People who do use English as their primary language propbably haven't had to deal with this. I have recently experienced problems reading man pages from this issue and had to solve the problem. In konsole -> Settings -> Encoding -> Default is "C" Change to "Unicode ( utf8 )" In kcontrol -> Region & Accessibility -> Country/Region & Lang Country or region: United states of America Languages: US English In testing various language settings from a terminal, use the following syntax to find what font works for you. xterm -fa "deja sans mono" -fs 12 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man ls LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 man ls LANG=C man ls