Title: Setting fonts
Subject: solving funny terminal font issues

People who do not use English as their primary language have to deal with this a lot, and thus have more experience.

People who do use English as their primary language propbably haven't had to deal with this.

I have recently experienced problems reading man pages from this issue and had to solve the problem.

In konsole -> Settings -> Encoding -> 
  Default is "C"
  Change to  "Unicode ( utf8 )"
  
In kcontrol -> Region & Accessibility -> Country/Region & Lang 
  Country or region:  United states of America
  Languages:          US English

In testing various language settings from a terminal, use the following syntax to find what font works for you.
  xterm -fa "deja sans mono" -fs 12
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man ls
  LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 man ls
  LANG=C man ls