Lars - your Russian text shows up only when I switch fonts to
"standard: 16-dot medium" via the Mule:Set Font/Fontset menu.
Otherwise it's empty boxes. I use

 (set-default-font "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-12-120-*-*-*-*-*-*")

in my .emacs. What font are you using that lets the Russian characters
show up?

bw

In message <m3r9s3edbp.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> 
> > Try mixing ISO-8859-5 with ISO-8859-[1-4] sometime and you will see just
> > how badly broken MULE really is.
> 
> Lét's see...