Incorrect display of Russian language with the correct font

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
linux, python
Domain
cli, internationalization

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked installation log and the provided QEMU configuration, then reproduce the issue in archinstall with the Cyr-Sun16 font and Russian text. Compare the rendering with Ukrainian and other working languages; done means Russian text displays correctly while using the reported font.

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Description

Which ISO version are you using?

2026.09.01

The installation log

https://termbin.com/de62

describe the problem
Description of the issue

I installed the font Cyr-Sun16 and got incorrect display of Russian text. The same problem occurred when setting the same font in the settings archinstall. With other languages everything is fine, like Ukrainian.

Virtual machine config:
<domain type="kvm">
  <name>my-arch-machine</name>
  ...
  </devices>
</domain>

/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=my-arch-machine,debug-threads=on -object ...
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