[publican-list] CJK fonts and italics

[Steve Bonneville]

I'm working with some rendering of material to PDF in Publican that 
uses CJK fonts (zh-CN, zh-TW, ko-KR, and ja-JP translations).  I'm
noticing that any string tagged in such a way as to set font-style to
italic is getting each Unicode character rendered as missing character 
boxes.  (In fact, it looks like it may be the non-character U+FFFF.) 
In particular this affects <emphasis> and <firstterm>, but I think 
this is a general issue with anything the brand marks as italic.

I know these fonts don't have a normal italic or oblique style.  So,
is there something I can do to fix this?  I'd be reasonably happy if
they just rendered as normal-style fonts rather than as missing
characters.  I've tested with publican 2.2 and 2.5, docbook-style-xsl 
1.75.2-6, with the Fedora brand and our custom brand, on Fedora 14.
Um, fop-0.95-5 also.

  -- Steve

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