From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: all the fonts in the package include the complete set of cyrillic letters, but in the fonts.dir there are no appropriate entries. For example, in addition to a line a010013l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 there shall also be a line a010013l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5 for each font, to enable iso-8859-5 (Cyrillic) encoding for this font. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0-17 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.more /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.dir Actual Results: a010013l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 a010013l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 a010015l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-demi bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 a010015l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-demi bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 a010033l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 a010033l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 ..... Expected Results: a010013l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 a010013l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 a010013l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5 a010015l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-demi bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 a010015l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-demi bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 a010015l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-demi bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5 a010033l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 a010033l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 a010033l.pfb -URW-Gothic L-book-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5 ..... Additional info: of course, fonts.scale shall reflect this too.
Let me suggest that the cyrillic entries will be added only for standard postscript names (such as Helvetica) and not to proprietary families (such as Gothic L). The reason beyond this is that cyrillic glyphs are not copyrighted by URW, therefore there's no need to retain original families for cyrillic encoding, as doing this just creates unnecessary multiplication of font names and further user confusion. Having three similar kinds of Helvetica by different foundries and couple of helveticas with different names is already confusing enough.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.