I need help. I have installed cyrilic fonts, but when i try to wiev anything in russian (encoding doesn't matter) i get sqares filled with four letters and numbers and i have no idea where i should start to fix it I need to fix it quickly, because i have an angry e-mail in russian

Well i already solved it. I've got <a>cyrillic</a> fonts instaled but not added in my FontPath... idiot

Can you post the steps on what you did to solve this problem? I'm having the same problem and I don't know how to get it to work.

I can't. I didn't make any notices and i reinstall Slack. Now i also have no idea how to do it

Ok, I have same issues with cyrilic. Only that I upgraded Slackware with swaret and fonts are the same I had on previous Slack which worked excellent.

I've solved it (maybe) you need Type1 or TTF cyrilic fonts. It has something to do with xft but i don't remember what. So try to find some free Type1 or TTF cyrilic fonts or use the ones from Windows or download from dropline ftp webfonts and cabextract pakages and install them (you must install cabextract before installing webfonts it's needet only to extract fonts from webfonts packages so then you coud remove it ).

Thanks for the info! It really helped. I got cyrillic fonts to display in everything. All I did was open the font installer in KDE and install all the fonts from my windows fonts directory and voila! All cyrillic fonts display properly now. I should include that I already had cyrillic fonts installed on my windows system so for anyone that doesn't have windows or cyrillic fonts installed, they will obviously have to find them on the web but just install them to your TTF directory in linux and everything should work fine. This is great!