Apex Listener prints ### instead of cyrillic symbols

Hi everybody!
Apex listener (2.0.4/) prints ### insead of cyryllic symbols when printing to PDF from APEX.
In Glassfish log I found next entries:
[2013-10-02T10:31:44.040+0600] [glassfish 4.0] [WARNING] [] [org.apache.fop.apps.FOUserAgent] [tid: _ThreadID=20 _ThreadName=http-listener-1(3)] [timeMillis: 1380688304040] [levelValue: 900] [[
Glyph "н" (0x43d, afii10079) not available in font "Helvetica".]]
[2013-10-02T10:31:44.040+0600] [glassfish 4.0] [WARNING] [] [org.apache.fop.apps.FOUserAgent] [tid: _ThreadID=20 _ThreadName=http-listener-1(3)] [timeMillis: 1380688304040] [levelValue: 900] [[
Glyph "с" (0x441, afii10083) not available in font "Helvetica".]]
[2013-10-02T10:31:44.040+0600] [glassfish 4.0] [WARNING] [] [org.apache.fop.apps.FOUserAgent] [tid: _ThreadID=20 _ThreadName=http-listener-1(3)] [timeMillis: 1380688304040] [levelValue: 900] [[
Glyph "т" (0x442, afii10084) not available in font "Helvetica".]]
[2013-10-02T10:31:44.040+0600] [glassfish 4.0] [WARNING] [] [org.apache.fop.apps.FOUserAgent] [tid: _ThreadID=20 _ThreadName=http-listener-1(3)] [timeMillis: 1380688304040] [levelValue: 900] [[
Glyph "ь" (0x44c, afii10094) not available in font "Helvetica".]]
I have tried other fonts (Times-Roman and Courier), but result is the same.
Can anybody answer how to teach Apex Listener to work with cyrillic symbols?
My system is: Windows XP SP3, Glassfish 4, Apex Listener 2.0.4, Apex 4.2.3., Oracle XE 11g.

Finnaly, with help from other forums, solution is found:
1. In defaults.xml add entry:
<entry key="fop.configfile">C:\some_path\fop.xml</entry>
2. In fop.xml:
<fop version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<renderers>
   <renderer mime="application/pdf">
   <filterList>
   <value>flate</value>
   </filterList>
<fonts>
<directory>C:\WINDOWS\FONTS</directory>
<auto-detect/>
</fonts>
   <stroke-text>false</stroke-text>
   </renderer>
</renderers>
</fop>
3. restart glassfish.

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