cyrillic fonts in emacs

[freiric]

emacs can't display cyrillic fonts in feisty, having a system up to date and having installed mule-ucs and emacs-intl-fonts.
It's maybe an unrelated problem, but the file "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist (needed in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf).

Section "Files"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
 # path to defoma fonts
 FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

It has however been created after I have installed the following package:

xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-75dpi (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-isocyr-75dpi (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-isocyr-misc (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8r-75dpi (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8r-misc (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8u-75dpi (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8u-misc (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-bolkhov-misc (1.1.20001007-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-100dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-75dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-100dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-75dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-misc (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-100dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-75dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-misc (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-100dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-75dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-misc (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-100dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-75dpi (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-misc (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cronyx-misc (2.3.8-6ubuntu1)
xfonts-cyrillic (1:1.0.0-4)
xfonts-efont-unicode (0.4.0-4.1)
xfonts-efont-unicode-ib (0.4.0-4.1)

This didn't solve my problem either.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

[freiric (freiric2)]

Yes, this symptom is still reproducible on 8.10 beta.
As a workaround, I have the following line in my .emacs file:
(set-frame-font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-koi8-r")
This font is however not so nice.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

freiric, is this still an issue for you? could you please try in jaunty?
also, have you looked at these instructions:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/3327/cyrillic/Cyrillic-HOWTO-4.html
thank you, and good luck

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!