Getting Pango To Display Chinese

[PagCal <pagcal runbox com>]

I've been trying to get Pango to display Simplified Chinese for several 
days without success.

Can someone tell me how pango goes about selecting fonts to use?

Early on, I had the examples/ displaying HELLO.utf8 properly, but then 
something changed, and I can't get back to that point. Pango thought it 
was using 'Sans 18', that, somehow would display the fonts properly.

Efforts have included upgrading to the latest stable pango, glib, cairo, 
libXft, gtk+-2, atk, freetype, fontconfig, etc.

If I set the environmental variable XFT_DEBUG to 1023, then trace 
libXft, when pango-xftview runs, it displays little boxes with numbers 
in them. Here's the trace


Caching glyph 0xb size 204
FontFile /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf/0 matches existing (2)
XftFontInfoFill: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf: 0 (24 pixels)
FontFile /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf/0 matches new
XftFontInfoFill: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf: 0 (12 pixels)
New font /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf/0 size 12x12
Loading file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf/0
Set face size to 12x12 (768x768)
Set face matrix to (1,0,0,1)
glyph 19:
xywh (0 640 512 640), trans (0 512 640 0) wh (8 10)
 =**;  |
;+  #: |
#:  =+ |
#   :# |
.#   .# |
.#   .# |
#   :# |
*:  ;+ |
;+  *: |
 =**;

What's it doing with TTF/luxisr.ttf when it should be displaying

- isas - * - * et all?

BTW, xfontsel lets me display -isas-*-* properly.

So, how do I get pango to select it?

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