pangox.aliases ignored by Pango

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Hello!

I just found out that Pango ignores the pangox.aliases file - changing, even removing the file didn't affect the behavior of Pango's virtual fonts sans, sefif and monospace.
I am very displeased with the current behavior of these fonts, and using actual fonts in Gnome is only a temporary solution, since sometimes this yields pretty unattractive pairing of latin and japanese fonts.
I am using Gentoo linux and Pango 1.6.0, but the problem was present in Pango 1.4.0 too.

I tried setting up a pangorc to explicitly point Pango to pangox.aliases, with the PANGO_RC_FILE variable pointing to it, to no avail whatsoever.
I also tried to configure a pangoxft.alias file, referencing it from
pangorc as

[PangoXft]
AliasFiles=/etc/pango/pangoxft.aliases

I have no idea what is the problem. My pangox.aliases file is the
following:
sans normal normal normal normal \
 "-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-mikachan-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

sans italic normal normal normal \
 "-monotype-arial-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
 -*-mikachan-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

sans normal normal bold normal \
 "-monotype-arial black-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-mikachan_pb-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

sans italic normal bold normal \
 "-monotype-arial-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-mikachan_pb-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

serif normal normal normal normal \
 "-monotype-garamond-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -monotype-times new roman-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi mincho-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

serif italic normal normal normal \
 "-monotype-garamond-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -monotype-times new roman-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi mincho-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

serif normal normal bold normal \
 "-monotype-garamond-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -monotype-times new roman-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi mincho-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

serif italic normal bold normal \
 "-monotype-times new roman-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi mincho-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

monospace normal normal normal normal \
 "-monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi gothic-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

monospace italic normal normal normal \
 "-monotype-courier new-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi gothic-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

monospace normal normal bold normal \
 "-monotype-courier new-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi gothic-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

monospace italic normal bold normal \
 "-monotype-courier new-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
  -*-kochi gothic-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"