diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 99b06db8..f0c5e3dd 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2780,6 +2780,7 @@ Dominik Strasser <dominik@die-strassers.de>
 
 Joerg Bornkessel <hd_brummy@gentoo.org>
  for adding LDFLAGS to the linker calls in the Makefiles
+ for fixing font handling with fontconfig 2.9.0 or newer
 
 Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>
  for suggesting to retrieve the include path to the freetype2 header files
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 53073f5d..fb20a60a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -7138,3 +7138,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Finally removed the code marked with __RECORDING_H_DEPRECATED_DIRECT_MEMBER_ACCESS
   and LEGACY_CRECEIVER.
 - Now making sure that the "small font" is never larger than the "osd font".
+- Fixed font handling with fontconfig 2.9.0 or newer (thanks to Joerg Bornkessel).
diff --git a/font.c b/font.c
index f6ffd61b..0bcdc9bb 100644
--- a/font.c
+++ b/font.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * BiDi support by Osama Alrawab <alrawab@hotmail.com> @2008 Tripoli-Libya.
  *
- * $Id: font.c 2.12 2012/06/02 13:32:19 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: font.c 2.13 2012/06/02 13:38:28 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "font.h"
@@ -482,7 +482,8 @@ cString cFont::GetFontFileName(const char *FontName)
      FcPatternAddBool(pat, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue);
      FcConfigSubstitute(NULL, pat, FcMatchPattern);
      FcDefaultSubstitute(pat);
-     FcFontSet *fontset = FcFontSort(NULL, pat, FcFalse, NULL, NULL);
+     FcResult fresult;
+     FcFontSet *fontset = FcFontSort(NULL, pat, FcFalse, NULL, &fresult);
      if (fontset) {
         for (int i = 0; i < fontset->nfont; i++) {
             FcBool scalable;