Comment # 8 on bug 1118557 from Ulrich Windl

(In reply to Stefan Br�ns from comment #5)
> To see which fonts are available via the Core fonts mechanism, do
> $> grep "helvetica-medium-r-.*-12-" /usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.dir

Still, the result is confusing:
~> grep "helvetica-medium-r-.*-12-" /usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.dir
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-10
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-13
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-14
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-15
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-2
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-3
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-4
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-9
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir:helvR12.pcf.gz
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1

Could the font encoding be part of the problem?
~> locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=