Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Unicode in Math Mode

[yuri-v]

Is there any way to use non-latin unicode characters in math mode?

XeTeX allows specifying unicode fonts for both text and math modes, so it is possible to use any cyrillic unicode character in text mode directly and without any additional packages. But not in math mode, where you still have to use \text{} command. For example, the following code results in printing "A, , A" instead of "A, A, A":

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% UTF8
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{unicode-math}

\setmainfont{XITS}
\setmathfont{XITS Math}

\begin{document}
А, $А$, $\text{А}$  % <- Cyrillic capital letter A (U+0410)
\end{document}

Frequent using of \text{} is inconvenient and makes formulas less readable.