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Tips for writing documents in the Cyrillic alphabet

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Cyrillic and extended Roman characters
Fonts with good Cyrillic support
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Cyrillic and extended Roman characters

If you have a document that uses both the Cyrillic alphabet and has extended (accentuated) Roman/Latin characters, you need to use the utf8 encoding.

In Document - Settings - Language clear the checkbox "Use language's default encoding" and in the dropdown list "Encoding" select "utf8".

In the LaTeX preamble, add such a line:

 \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}

This will allow the generation of PDFs without errors.

Fonts with good Cyrillic support

Font	Italic	Bold	Small caps
Computer Modern	+	+	+
CM Bright	+	+
Concrete Roman	+		+
Libertine	+	+	latin only
Iwona	+	+	latin only
Crimson (cochineal)	+	+	latin only
DejaVu Serif	+	+
DejaVu Sans	+	+
DejaVu Sans Mono	+	+
PT Serif	+	+
PT Sans	+	+
PT Mono		+
Droid Serif	+	+	+
Droid Sans	+	+	+
Droid Mono	+		+
Charter (xcharter)	+	+	+
Gentium	+	latin only	latin only
Noto	+	+	latin only
Erewhon	+	+	+
Heuristica	+	+	+
Tempora	+	+