Well, the summary says it all: the symbol for lower case sigma "σ" appears as a question mark "?". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to the URL specified to see the image displayed correctly. 2. If you're using Konqueror, just click on the image to use the KSVG kpart, OR, download the SVG file and open it with 'svgdisplay'. Actual Results: Lower case sigma appears as a question mark: "?". Expected Results: Lower case sigma appears as lower case sigma: "σ". This also happens on a stable x86 installation (3.5.9). Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6300_@_1.86GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:45:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch prelink protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/Gentoo " LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_AU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_AU.UTF-8 en_AU en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 ao bash-completion berkdb blas bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt curl dbus dia doc dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm graphviz gsl gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq imagemagick imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde lapack ldap libnotify lm_sensors lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sharedmem speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff timidity truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis wavpack wxwindows xcomposite xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_AU.UTF-8 en_AU en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170256 I've added myself in the CC list of the upstream bug so if there will be a patch i'll add it, but since kde3 development is dead i highly doubt it will be fixed. BTW it works here in 3.5.10 Closing as upstream
