Thank you, as I see, xml-metrics files in not really necessary.
I posted a modified version of patch on bugzilla, which correct AFMFiles 
handling too.

> Ah, I get it now. You didn't know that the whole PFMReader business is
> no longer necessary. You could have just dropped the metrics-url
> attribute in the font configuration and it would all have worked. Anyway,
> it's probably not a bad idea to still look at your patch.
>
> On 16.12.2009 12:21:27 Andrey V Koltunov wrote:
> > Cyrillic fonts working great in case of PDF output and TrueType fonts
> > using.
> >
> > But I need to use Type1 fonts.
> >
> > First of all, PFMReader utility does not know about Cyrillic charset.
> > When I tried to build xml-metrics file, output look like this:
> > Unknown charset detected (204, 0xcc). Trying fallback to WinAnsi.
> >
> > Also I found, that FOP does not know anything about cyrillic glyph names.
> >
> > Some docs about this:
> > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/non_latin.html
> > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font/pdfs/5013.Cyrillic_Font_Spec.pdf
> >
> > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48396
> > >
> > > --- Comment #2 from Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]> 2009-12-16
> > > 02:57:44 UTC --- Andrey, I'm a bit surprised about this patch. I've
> > > invested considerable effort some time ago to make cyrillic fonts work.
> > > What was your motivation to add the "AdobeStandardCyrillic" encoding?
> > > Was something not working as it should have? I'm not criticizing, just
> > > trying to understand.
> > >
> > > Thanks anyway for contributing to FOP! I hope I have time soon to look
> > > at the patch. Of course, other committers are allowed to process this
> > > patch before that if they have time.
>
> Jeremias Maerki

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