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diff --git a/README.unicode b/README.unicode
index 828ac7b5e97..4438cb10aa0 100644
--- a/README.unicode
+++ b/README.unicode
@@ -191,3 +191,12 @@ It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and
 have these font driver.
         ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts.
         bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts.
+
+Note: The fontset related codes are not yet matuared to work well with
+the font backend method.  So, for instance, even if you start Emacs
+as something like this:
+  % emacs --enable-font-backend -fn tahoma
+Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma".
+In such a case, please try this:
+
+(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp"))