Can't use code block with cyrillic in Markdown for the PDF output

[OnkelTem]

Hi!

I have the following Markdown file:

test.md

# Test

```
test
```

and I run pandoc using this command:

$ pandoc -s \
    --pdf-engine=xelatex \
    --lang=ru \
    "test.md" -o "test.pdf"

and I get the following error:

Error producing PDF.
! Package polyglossia Error: The current latin font latinmodern-math.otf(3) doe
s not contain the "Cyrillic" script!
(polyglossia)                Please define \cyrillicfont with \newfontfamily co
mmand.

See the polyglossia package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.70 \begin{verbatim}

How to fix this error? I tried googling but it didn't help much.

Thanks in advance.

[rnwst]

Which pandoc version are you using? When I run this command, I get the error Unknown option --lang. (using pandoc 3.6.4). The manual also seems to suggest that pandoc doesn't have a --lang option.

[OnkelTem]

Hi!

I should have done this from the beginning, sorry. It's really old 2.9.2.1 and I wasn't aware of it.

Let me please update to the latest version and retry. Thank you.

[OnkelTem]

After I updated to 3.6.4 the --lang option stopped working as you say.

So the aspect of my problem has shifted a little.

Now I run this: $ pandoc -s --pdf-engine=xelatex -V mainfont="Liberation Serif" "test.md" -o "test.fb2"
with this document:

# 1. Тест

test

```
test
тест
```

Note the second "test" (тест) in the code block, it's in Cyrillic. And that makes this warning in the console:

[WARNING] Missing character: There is no т (U+0442) (U+0442) in font [lmmono10-regular]:!
[WARNING] Missing character: There is no е (U+0435) (U+0435) in font [lmmono10-regular]:!
[WARNING] Missing character: There is no т (U+0442) (U+0442) in font [lmmono10-regular]:!
[WARNING] Missing character: There is no е (U+0435) (U+0435) in font [lmmono10-regular]:!

and the line doesn't get rendered.

I wonder how to set font for the code blocks.

[rnwst]

You can specify the code block font using the monofont variable.

[OnkelTem]

Many thanks @rnwst !

So my final line is:

$ pandoc -s --pdf-engine=xelatex \
  -V mainfont="Liberation Serif" \
  -V monofont="Liberation Mono" \
  "test.md" -o "test.fb2"