Troubles with newsticker font in Fedora 11

[jacquesal]

Hello all,

I'm certainly not an Emacs expert, but am trying to consolidate some
of my text-related web browsing therein. RSS and Atom feeds are an
ideal target, and I like newsticker. However, I'm having the strangest
problem on a Fedora 11 box running Emacs 23.1.

The default "face" of this precompiled binary of Emacs is DejaVu Sans
Mono. However, when I enter newsticker-show-news, it reverts to
_something else_ (perhaps the default "helvetica"). Both the feed tree
and the headline list. The only part of newsticker that respects
Emacs' default face is the story summary (bottom right).

Now, I've been in the newsticker configuration and have tried to (a)
change all faces to a font of my choice (font family: DejaVu Sans
Mono) and (b) remove all references to the default "helvetica" that is
perhaps causing the problem. No luck.

This would not be an enormous problem if this undesired "face" were
able to display western European accented characters.  (I'm on a UTF8
locale.) It can't, and instead substitutes some random font for _only_
the accented characters. This renders the text very hard to read.

Any ideas?