Worked like a charm!
Thanks boroda/igorsk et al.!
A strange observation:
Actually I wanted to polonize the reader - there are just 12 polish letters missing, so I thought that adding the other 200+ glyphs present in the image, would be a bit of an overkill. I took a minimalistic approach and just added the missing 12 letters to the original sony fonts. Now, with the 12 added letters, each of my fonts (modified with a trial version of Font Creator, to be exact), is a couple of Kbs smaller than the original. I wonder if there is no hidden reason why the originals were less space-effective - maybe they are somehow optimized for speed, or they are simply a bit messy