Hi, cyrillic in KDE works fine for all us Russian KDE users :-).
> Konsole however doesn't seem to be able to use the koi8-r character > set. I use KControl to select the Courier New with koi8-r encoding for > Konsole, but it doesn't use that one. When I try to modify the font > within Konsole the Courier New koi8-r isn't even there! Seems that you have fot antialiasing enabled, and your /etc/X11/XftConfig is not set up correctly for cyrillic fonts. Try disabling font antialiasing. > KDict seems to ignore the Russian characters from dictd alltogether, > only squares appear and pasting the output into a hexeditor reveals > that all russian characters are translated to 0x00. Last time I tried kdict (several months ago) it was completely broken for non-latin characters. Don't know it it was fixed since then ...