Comment # 10 on bug 979566 from jaakov jaakov

(In reply to Egbert Eich from comment #7)
> (In reply to jaakov jaakov from comment #5)
> > The package xorg-x11-fonts-core is indeed installed.
> 
> Did you check this on the machine where the Xserver is running - in case you
> run across the network?

I ran the "xlsfonts | grep ..." command over ssh, and it gave positive results
then.

Now I'm finally on the machine in question directly. In the meantime the
machine had some installations, including that of xfd, and was rebooted. Let's
see now the results of all the commands from a fresh uxterm; they are somewhat
different (don't ask me why):

[
user@host:~> sudo zypper info xorg-x11-fonts-core | egrep
"(Version:)|(Installed:)"
Version: 7.6-31.6
Installed: Yes
user@host:~> xlsfonts | grep
misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
user@host:~> xfd -fn
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1" to type
FontStruct
xfd:  no font to display
user@host:~> 
]

When you enter characters from another alphabet via keyboard (say, cyrillic)
into the uxterm, you get a blank space pro character. That is, entering
"������������" from the keyboard gives 6 spaces. However, you can select these spaces
with a mouse and copy them elsewhere, say, into a gedit, where you do see the
originally typed "������������".

When you start a gnome konsole, you do see every cyrillic character that you
enter in the konsole directly.

If I can do some further debugging, please tell me so.