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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Michael Livshin wrote:

> to possible future sufferers: the _key_ thing about getting anything
> MULE-related to work seems to be /letting go/.  by any means, don't
> try logic!  you'll spend hours in pain, you'll pull half your hair
> out, and it just won't work for you.

OTOH, you _can_ try logic after you read the sources ;-)

> not
> forgetting to explicitly map the "cyrillic-iso8859-5" encoding to an
> iso8859-5 font in the fontset (no sir, Emacs *won't* grok it by
> itself, how could it?)

I'm surprised this is so, but if it is, it sounds like a bug, so please 
report it (with a precise test case to reproduce) to 
emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.  Thanks.

Btw, cyrillic-iso8859-5 is not an encoding, it's a character set.  But 
that's nitpicking.