Re: kde2 sarge x86, QT_XFT environment and TTF weirdness.

[Miguel]

I think you may not have Xft properly configured.  Edit 
/etc/X11/XftConfig and restart KDE afterwards.  In XftConfig you 
should have one

dir "directory"

line for every directory in which you have TrueType or Type1 fonts.

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Miguel