I've just installed RH6.2 , choosing Russian as the def. language. Unlike in RH6.1 6.0 5.2 , now cyrillic fonts are installed in this case - very well, and in GNOME the things, that should be in Russian are in Russian, but in KDE there is another picture - unreadable symbols instead of russian symbols, - because KDE doesn't see russian fonts (KDE's bug). But this problem can be easily overcomed - in /etc/X11/fs/config file , in the catalogue section, move the string /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, to the first place. After installation this section was : catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 It needs to be : catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 In this case KDE sees cyrillic fonts, and menus are OK. As far as I understand , XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-3.3.6-20.i386.rpm, must be installed after all other fonts are installed. (maybe except misc)
thanks for your report! I will forward this to the KDE folks ...
Please check if this still occurs with the current version (2.0).
The bug disappeared in KDE2.0 ( Currently using xfree 4.0.1 binaries from xfree.org + manually compiled KDE2)