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This article provides a possible solution when the symbol sidebar of the LaTeX editor Kile is not working.

Situation

When clicking on a symbol on the sidebar, the correspondig LaTeX command is not inserted into the text of the edited file.

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Procedure

The following procedure solved the problem for Kile version 2.1.1 from the KDE:UpdatedApps repository and KDE 4.6.5 from the repository KDE:Release:46 repository

First close any running Kile program. In the configuration file ~/.kde4/share/config/kilerc under the section [MostUsedSymbols] replace the line

symbolViewUTF8=true

by

symbolViewUTF8=false

Now restart kile.