In kcontrol is the charset 'iso8859-1' and in the .po file is the charset 'UTF-8' ! Kai > what are your charset settings in KDE ? You need to set those correctly, or > you'll get the problems you have :) - to unsubscribe from this list send an email to kdevelop-request at kdevelop.org with the following body: unsubscribe »your-email-address«