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I wrote in article <ao0hgi$1fim$1@agate.berkeley.edu>:

> > SPECIFICS of the problem1: when asked to show cyrillic, it shows
> > cyrillic indeed.  However, the shown glyphs have no relationship to
> > the actual Cyrillic text (e.g., in the Hello, World example).  Do not
> > have a slightest idea how to report it in more details...
> 
> It looks like pointing-fingers was not dead-on-the-target; while Emacs
> is faulty, the principal blame should go to xrus-1251 and (allegedly)
> Netscape.  An excerpt from
> 
>   http://www.siber.org/sib/russify/x-windows/#win-fonts

After some private email exchange with the knowledgeable people
(designers of the system?), I got the following fix:

  (setq face-ignored-fonts '("-cronyx-.*-iso8859-5$"))

It is not documented, but this REx is matched against the name Emacs
uses for the query, and not the "actual" font name; moreover, this REx
is case-insensitive, and is not achored.

E.g., in my case Emacs was getting a Cronyx font via an -iso8859-5
alias; the actual encoding of the font (and the tail of the "actual"
name) was reported to be RAWIN-R.  But the REx should be designed to
exclude the alias name, not the actual name.

Hope this helps,
Ilya