Accented characters: sudden strange difficulty to produce them.

[Constantinos Maltezos]

On Monday 18 February 2008 11:15:11 Bas Roufs wrote:
> >  This indicates, to me, that the underlying system (X) is
> > doing the right thing and that only Firefox and Thunderbird are being
> > stubborn.
>
> I wish you would have been right, but the problem is a bit more complex
> as you can see above. Thank you anyway for your creative input in this
> discussion!

What are the contents of your ~/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc file?