Fonts don't work when typing Russian characters.

[Jellical_Cats]

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I have set up Russian as the second language I can type in on my mac. All the characters display correctly. However, only 2 or 3 basic fonts are available when the language is set to Russian. I realize that *most* fonts out there have not been converted to cyrillic characters, but from having Office before, I know that quite a few of them are (as in, a lot more than those that work for me). Is there a reason my mac does not recognize that they work for both languages? Can they be activated or downloaded? Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have set up Russian as the second language I can type in on my mac.
All the characters display correctly. However, only 2 or 3 basic fonts
are available when the language is set to Russian. I realize that
*most* fonts out there have not been converted to cyrillic characters,

It's not a matter of conversion. The Font set needs to have all the
Cyrillic characters embedded, added to the default set.

but from having Office before, I know that quite a few of them are (as
in, a lot more than those that work for me). Is there a reason my mac
does not recognize that they work for both languages? Can they be
activated or downloaded? Any insight would be appreciated.

Well different versions of a same font set can host a different number
of characters.
I would guess that most standard fonts provided with Office should be
just fine.
As for buying/downloading others: sure, multiple sites offer Cyrillic fonts.

There is no "activation" you can do for the fonts. They either have the
Cyrillic characters or they don't.

Corentin