font selection broken in Emacs and other things

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg

Sorry if this isn't the right package to report against.
I assume it will be a duplicate, but I couldn't find
a similar report anywhere. It's for current edgy,
a regression in the upgrade from dapper.

If you fire up `emacs -q --no-site-file' with empty
X resources (i.e. xrdb /dev/null) the display is
garbage due to it reporting:

 Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
 Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

Other programs, such as `display' from imagemagick
won't start at all, after emitting similar messages
and even xfontsel reports
  Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
and produces a garbage display when you try to
select courier in it, but is happy, for instance, with `courier 10 pitch'.

xlsfonts produces matches OK:

$ xlsfonts -fn "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-1