I guess my newsreader (Agent) isn't set to read Cyrillic.
By the way,although I know next to nothing of the Russian language I
*can* read Cyrillic. I taught myself to read Cyrillic over 50 years
ago when I was an active tournament Chess player and used to get the
Russian Chess magazine Shakhmaty. I couldn't read any of the magazine
text, but the moves are international and I learned Cyrillic so I
could read the names of the players.
Do you know Russian?
No. Like you, I can read Cyrillic, albeit slowly. I can sometimes type
it as well, although I don't know the cursive. I can occasionally puzzle
out cursive Cyrillic, but that's really hard for me.
It's just that I am in the habit of occasionally learning an alphabet or
two. The Cyrillic helps in reading things like the name of a Bulgarian
or Serbian folk dance or song on YouTube or on a recording - the
different versions of Cyrillic are not a great obstacle.
The tough one has been Arabic. It has taken over a decade[1], and I
still can't make sense out of any fonts other than the most vanilla of
Arabic script.
[1] My approach was too piecemeal, or really too careless. I finally
decided to learn the letters in order, learning to read and write a few
at a time in order. That worked.
