Gnus: Cyrillic in italics

[Dmitri Minaev <minaev@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

I have removed the default Emacs from Ubuntu and installed new CVS version.
Works good, but for some reason the rendering of characters in Gnus has
changed. All Latin letters look the same, but all Cyrillic glyphs are now
drawn in italics, even though the same face is used. All Gnus and Emacs
settings are the same as used in Ubuntu Emacs23.

What makes Gnus use italics in the new Emacs? What should I do to fix it?

New Emacs is configured to use xft and libotf:
  What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          MOTIF
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                Standard dirs
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   Standard dirs
  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use a gif library?                           yes -lgif
  Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2?                                yes
  Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              yes
  Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt?                              yes
  Does Emacs use -lotf?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -lxft?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars?                     yes

I tried using other toolkits, including GTK (which is used by Ubuntu Emacs),
but nothing changed.

Below is the output of `describe-char' for the same Cyrillic letter `ж',
taken in Org-mode, where it looks normal, and in Gnus, where it is drawn in
italics:

        character: ж (1078, #o2066, #x436)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
       code point: 0x0436
           syntax: w     which means: word
         category: .:Base, Y:2-byte Cyrillic, c:Chinese, h:Korean,
j:Japanese, y:Cyrillic
      buffer code: #xD0 #xB6
        file code: #xD0 #xB6 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x36C)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)

There are text properties here:
  face                 org-level-2
  fontified            t

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        character: ж (1078, #o2066, #x436)
preferred charset: koi8-r (KOI8-R)
       code point: 0xD6
           syntax: w     which means: word
         category: .:Base, Y:2-byte Cyrillic, c:Chinese, h:Korean,
j:Japanese, y:Cyrillic
      buffer code: #xD0 #xB6
        file code: #xD0 #xB6 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans
Mono-normal-oblique-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x369)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)

There are text properties here:
  charset              koi8-r
  face                 gnus-summary-normal-ticked
  gnus-number          69252

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With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev

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