MS fonts, hickups with Greek

Hello.
I've being looking in to fonts on 10.7, trying to find my perfect font, when I hit a really odd bug! So the preview of the story is that I need a font what can display Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letter. And the problematic one has always been Greek.
Apart from all the fonts that do not have full coverage of the three scripts (some times, simply missing a single letter) I found six that have the same peculiarity. They are 6 Microsoft fonts, [Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel] that in OSX can not properly display letters U+0390 (GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS) and U+03B0 (GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS).
The odd thing is that these fonts include glyphs for these letters, and that in ms Word, the fonts are displayed correctly. But in OSX applications, one or both of these letters are replaced by the the capital version with dialytika and without tonos (U+03AA and U+03AB).
Besides that while the capital accented letter, with these fonts appear accented in Word, everywhere else in OSX they are also replaced by the non accented version. Again, the glyphs do exist in the font.
But there's more! While testing, I saw that the OSX has a stange way to handle the Greek punctuation mark U+0387 (GREEK ANO TELEIA). Looking in to the font, the glyph exists and it's placed exactly where it's supposed to be (as high up as the top dot on the Greek question mark [;]). But neither the Font Book, nor Word displayed it correctly, they replaced it with the middle dot, U+00B7. But… TextEdit displayed it correctly, while at the same time incorrectly displayed the upsilon and iota letter I mentioned above.
below is some sample text that you can copy - paste and see the results
1. Iota and upsilon, all combinations
ι,Ι,ί,Ί,ϊ,Ϊ,ΐ
υ,Υ,ύ,Ύ,ϋ,Ϋ,ΰ
2. Full stop, coma, semicolon, middle dot, greek question mark, ano teleia)

As far as I can tell, the fonts supplied by Apple do display the accented characters correctly. So perhaps that is where to look for one which can do everything you want. Lucida Grande normally works well with all these scripts.
You can check the variation in glyphs for a particular character by selecting it in the Unicode category in Character Viewer and then checking the Font Variation pane at the lower right. It looks like the glyph position for U+0387 varies a lot, but I would be very surprised to see it actually replaced by U+00B7, I've never heard of an app or font that would do that.
I don't know why those MS fonts would not display correctly in apps other than Word (I don't have them myself). You might want to ask about that in the MS forums as well
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword
PS you might want to look at Gentium Plus
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium_download
PSS You can alert Apple to the problems with the MS fonts via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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