ISO8859-15 fonts are very small

On Fedora Core 5, many more fonts are available:

$ xlsfonts | grep -i misc-fixed-medium-r-normal | grep -i iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--6-60-75-75-c-40-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15

I can confirm this bug and would like to add that I face problems also with the other encodings of the misc-fixed font. It seems that only the ascii fontset remains unaffected.

I'd greatly appreciate any hint/advice how to work around this bug, since I use EMACS in a multilanguage environment for nearly every possible text-oriented task and this problem is very annoying, especially when dealing with non-ascii and multilingual files. Switching to a larger font-size doesn't fix the problem, since the non-ascii characters still remain (at least) half the size of the other characters.

It's noteworthy that under Debian I had the same problem, but it was easily cured by putting "(set-default-font "7x14")" in .emacs -- a solution that doesn't work with Dapper, unfortunalely.

The affected package is perhaps xfonts-base.

Here is a combined screenshot, showing how the various iso8859-* charsets are displayed in EMACS (with set-default-fontset "9x15" in ~/.emacs).

And this is the expected result for iso8859-2 as displayed in EMACS on a PC running an up-to-date Debian Sarge.