>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes: 
>> Er, why not add them to cyrillic.el, appropriately
>> conditionalized? 
Alexey> You can't "conditionalize" it.  It depends upon what encoding
Alexey> user's fonts have, and you can't guess it.
SJT> Sure you can.  You start by guessing that the user wants KOI8-R
SJT> fonts.  That's pretty likely to be valid, wouldn't you say?  Then
SJT> `(list-fonts "-*-koi8-r")' will tell you whether there are any.
SJT> If there are, use them.
I mean, I'm not against heuristics of any sort.  I just want the basic
functionality to work first.
--alexm