Comment 16 for bug 165665

This still seems to be a problem on Win32 with trunk 18352 and the latest devlibs from Ishmal and patched pango libs found here;
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/pango/1.20/pango-1.20.0.zip

The pango guys don't seem too worried about non-unicode fonts.