diff --git a/src/buildCommon.js b/src/buildCommon.js
index e351308a..e742f81a 100644
--- a/src/buildCommon.js
+++ b/src/buildCommon.js
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ const lookupSymbol = function(
     }
     return {
         value: value,
-        metrics: fontMetrics.getCharacterMetrics(value, fontFamily),
+        metrics: fontMetrics.getCharacterMetrics(value, fontFamily, mode),
     };
 };
 
diff --git a/src/buildMathML.js b/src/buildMathML.js
index e23b5d4a..909b062a 100644
--- a/src/buildMathML.js
+++ b/src/buildMathML.js
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ const getVariant = function(group, options) {
     }
 
     const fontName = buildCommon.fontMap[font].fontName;
-    if (fontMetrics.getCharacterMetrics(value, fontName)) {
+    if (fontMetrics.getCharacterMetrics(value, fontName, mode)) {
         return buildCommon.fontMap[font].variant;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/delimiter.js b/src/delimiter.js
index ea1ae153..3e46e9dd 100644
--- a/src/delimiter.js
+++ b/src/delimiter.js
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ import utils from "./utils";
  * Get the metrics for a given symbol and font, after transformation (i.e.
  * after following replacement from symbols.js)
  */
-const getMetrics = function(symbol, font) {
+const getMetrics = function(symbol, font, mode) {
     if (symbols.math[symbol] && symbols.math[symbol].replace) {
         return fontMetrics.getCharacterMetrics(
-            symbols.math[symbol].replace, font);
+            symbols.math[symbol].replace, font, mode);
     } else {
         return fontMetrics.getCharacterMetrics(
-            symbol, font);
+            symbol, font, mode);
     }
 };
 
@@ -240,16 +240,16 @@ const makeStackedDelim = function(delim, heightTotal, center, options, mode,
     }
 
     // Get the metrics of the four sections
-    const topMetrics = getMetrics(top, font);
+    const topMetrics = getMetrics(top, font, mode);
     const topHeightTotal = topMetrics.height + topMetrics.depth;
-    const repeatMetrics = getMetrics(repeat, font);
+    const repeatMetrics = getMetrics(repeat, font, mode);
     const repeatHeightTotal = repeatMetrics.height + repeatMetrics.depth;
-    const bottomMetrics = getMetrics(bottom, font);
+    const bottomMetrics = getMetrics(bottom, font, mode);
     const bottomHeightTotal = bottomMetrics.height + bottomMetrics.depth;
     let middleHeightTotal = 0;
     let middleFactor = 1;
     if (middle !== null) {
-        const middleMetrics = getMetrics(middle, font);
+        const middleMetrics = getMetrics(middle, font, mode);
         middleHeightTotal = middleMetrics.height + middleMetrics.depth;
         middleFactor = 2; // repeat symmetrically above and below middle
     }
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ const traverseSequence = function(delim, height, sequence, options) {
             break;
         }
 
-        const metrics = getMetrics(delim, delimTypeToFont(sequence[i]));
+        const metrics = getMetrics(delim, delimTypeToFont(sequence[i]), "math");
         let heightDepth = metrics.height + metrics.depth;
 
         // Small delimiters are scaled down versions of the same font, so we
diff --git a/src/fontMetrics.js b/src/fontMetrics.js
index 5c72a676..291f17c7 100644
--- a/src/fontMetrics.js
+++ b/src/fontMetrics.js
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 // @flow
 import { supportedCodepoint } from "./unicodeScripts";
 
+import type { Mode } from "./types";
+
 /**
  * This file contains metrics regarding fonts and individual symbols. The sigma
  * and xi variables, as well as the metricMap map contain data extracted from
@@ -191,6 +193,7 @@ export type CharacterMetrics = {
 const getCharacterMetrics = function(
     character: string,
     font: string,
+    mode: Mode,
 ): ?CharacterMetrics {
     if (!metricMap[font]) {
         throw new Error(`Font metrics not found for font: ${font}.`);
@@ -201,10 +204,12 @@ const getCharacterMetrics = function(
     }
     let metrics = metricMap[font][ch];
 
-    if (!metrics) {
+    if (!metrics && mode === 'text') {
         // We don't typically have font metrics for Asian scripts.
+        // But since we support them in text mode, we need to return
+        // some sort of metrics.
         // So if the character is in a script we support but we
-        // dont have metrics for it, just use the metrics for
+        // don't have metrics for it, just use the metrics for
         // the Latin capital letter M. This is close enough because
         // we (currently) only care about the height of the glpyh
         // not its width.
diff --git a/src/symbols.js b/src/symbols.js
index 4083167b..843163e5 100644
--- a/src/symbols.js
+++ b/src/symbols.js
@@ -735,12 +735,6 @@ for (let i = 0; i < extraLatinMath.length; i++) {
     defineSymbol(math, main, mathord, ch, ch);
 }
 
-// Cyrillic
-for (let i = 0x0410; i <= 0x044F; i++) {
-    const ch = String.fromCharCode(i);
-    defineSymbol(text, main, textord, ch, ch);
-}
-
 // Unicode versions of existing characters
 defineSymbol(text, main, textord, "\u2013", "–");
 defineSymbol(text, main, textord, "\u2014", "—");
diff --git a/src/unicodeScripts.js b/src/unicodeScripts.js
index 9b5c287d..46483730 100644
--- a/src/unicodeScripts.js
+++ b/src/unicodeScripts.js
@@ -18,24 +18,25 @@ type Script = {
 };
 
 /**
- * Unicode block data for the families of scripts we support.
+ * Unicode block data for the families of scripts we support in \text{}.
+ * Scripts only need to appear here if they do not have font metrics.
  */
 const scriptData: Array<Script> = [
     {
-        // Chinese and Japanese.
-        // The "k" in cjk is for Korean, but we've separated Korean out
-        name: "cjk",
+        // Latin characters beyond the Latin-1 characters we have metrics for.
+        // Needed for Czech, Hungarian and Turkish text, for example.
+        name: 'latin',
         blocks: [
-            [0x3000, 0x30FF], // CJK symbols and punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana
-            [0x4E00, 0x9FAF], // CJK ideograms
-            [0xFF00, 0xFF60], // Fullwidth punctuation
-            // TODO: add halfwidth Katakana and Romanji glyphs
+            [0x0100, 0x024f],  // Latin Extended-A and Latin Extended-B
+            [0x0300, 0x036f],  // Combining Diacritical marks
         ],
     },
     {
-        // Korean
-        name: 'hangul',
-        blocks: [[0xAC00, 0xD7AF]],
+        // The Cyrillic script used by Russian and related languages.
+        // A Cyrillic subset used to be supported as explicitly defined
+        // symbols in symbols.js
+        name: 'cyrillic',
+        blocks: [[0x0400, 0x04ff]],
     },
     {
         // The Brahmic scripts of South and Southeast Asia
@@ -56,6 +57,26 @@ const scriptData: Array<Script> = [
         name: 'brahmic',
         blocks: [[0x0900, 0x109F]],
     },
+    {
+        name: 'georgian',
+        blocks: [[0x10A0, 0x10ff]],
+    },
+    {
+        // Chinese and Japanese.
+        // The "k" in cjk is for Korean, but we've separated Korean out
+        name: "cjk",
+        blocks: [
+            [0x3000, 0x30FF], // CJK symbols and punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana
+            [0x4E00, 0x9FAF], // CJK ideograms
+            [0xFF00, 0xFF60], // Fullwidth punctuation
+            // TODO: add halfwidth Katakana and Romanji glyphs
+        ],
+    },
+    {
+        // Korean
+        name: 'hangul',
+        blocks: [[0xAC00, 0xD7AF]],
+    },
 ];
 
 /**
diff --git a/test/unicode-spec.js b/test/unicode-spec.js
index c1132c0e..d1a9ba32 100644
--- a/test/unicode-spec.js
+++ b/test/unicode-spec.js
@@ -110,38 +110,63 @@ describe("unicode", function() {
     it("should not parse Devangari outside \\text{}", function() {
         expect('नमस्ते').toNotParse();
     });
+
+    it("should parse Georgian inside \\text{}", function() {
+        expect('\\text{გამარჯობა}').toParse();
+    });
+
+    it("should not parse Georgian outside \\text{}", function() {
+        expect('გამარჯობა').toNotParse();
+    });
+
+    it("should parse extended Latin characters inside \\text{}", function() {
+        expect('\\text{ěščřžůřťďňőİı}').toParse();
+    });
+
+    it("should not parse extended Latin outside \\text{}", function() {
+        expect('ěščřžůřťďňőİı').toNotParse();
+    });
+
 });
 
 describe("unicodeScripts", () => {
-    const cjkRE = /[\u3000-\u30FF\u4E00-\u9FAF\uFF00-\uFF60]/;
-    const hangulRE = /[\uAC00-\uD7AF]/;
-    const brahmicRE = /[\u0900-\u109F]/;
-    const allRE =
-        /[\u3000-\u30FF\u4E00-\u9FAF\uFF00-\uFF60\uAC00-\uD7AF\u0900-\u109F]/;
+    const scriptRegExps = {
+        latin: /[\u0100-\u024f\u0300-\u036f]/,
+        cyrillic: /[\u0400-\u04ff]/,
+        brahmic: /[\u0900-\u109F]/,
+        georgian: /[\u10a0-\u10ff]/,
+        cjk: /[\u3000-\u30FF\u4E00-\u9FAF\uFF00-\uFF60]/,
+        hangul: /[\uAC00-\uD7AF]/,
+    };
+
+    const scriptNames = Object.keys(scriptRegExps);
+
+    const allRegExp = new RegExp(
+        Object.values(scriptRegExps).map(re => re.source).join('|')
+    );
 
     it("supportedCodepoint() should return the correct values", () => {
         for (let codepoint = 0; codepoint <= 0xffff; codepoint++) {
             expect(supportedCodepoint(codepoint)).toBe(
-                allRE.test(String.fromCharCode(codepoint))
+                allRegExp.test(String.fromCharCode(codepoint))
             );
         }
     });
 
     it("scriptFromCodepoint() should return correct values", () => {
-        for (let codepoint = 0; codepoint <= 0xffff; codepoint++) {
+        outer: for (let codepoint = 0; codepoint <= 0xffff; codepoint++) {
             const character = String.fromCharCode(codepoint);
             const script = scriptFromCodepoint(codepoint);
 
-            if (cjkRE.test(character)) {
-                expect(script).toEqual('cjk');
-            } else if (hangulRE.test(character)) {
-                expect(script).toEqual('hangul');
-            } else if (brahmicRE.test(character)) {
-                expect(script).toEqual('brahmic');
-            } else {
-                expect(script).toBe(null);
-                expect(supportedCodepoint(codepoint)).toBe(false);
+            for (const scriptName of scriptNames) {
+                if (scriptRegExps[scriptName].test(character)) {
+                    expect(script).toEqual(scriptName);
+                    continue outer;
+                }
             }
+
+            expect(script).toBe(null);
+            expect(supportedCodepoint(codepoint)).toBe(false);
         }
     });
 });