What type of font to choose in Google Fonts: Cyrillic or Cyrillic Extended?

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    Cyrillic Extended encoding supports more languages, and therefore the file weight is more. It only makes sense to use it if the required language is not supported by standard Cyrillic. For example Mongolian, Uzbek.

    Cyrillic supports Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

    The sign number is included in the standard Cyrillic encoding. Its presence depends on the correspondence of the author to the encoding.

    If you need a font only for headings - take a regular one. If for> text - extended.

    No, for text there is no need to use extended if the language is supported by the standard encoding.

      Cyrillic Extended Extended, i.e. more additional characters. Extended fonts are smaller than regular fonts. If you need a font only for headings - take a regular one. If the text - extended.

      • I noticed that the regular symbol (Ledger) may be missing the Soviet character number N / # (No.), and in extended (Arimo) it is, but this is not enough to draw conclusions. - Boris Treukhov

      Also asked this question, here it seems there is an answer: Wiki about the Cyrillic alphabet ,
      Description of additional Cyrillic characters A ,
      Description of additional Cyrillic characters B