[gobolinux-users] Fontconfig problem for en_GB.UTF-8

[MJ Ray]

I was puzzled by the broken character symbol being displayed if I type 
certain non-English characters while using this locale.  I think the 
problem is shown by the commands:
; LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 fc-match Helvetica
helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: "Helvetica" "Regular"

Why is fc-match returning a ISO8859-1 font for a UTF-8 locale?
How can I stop it doing that?

Help!  Thanks,
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