Change appearance of italic ae symbol

Question

I need to use ae symbol in my article both in standard and italic forms.
Text aetextit{ae}in my .tex file looks like this

The italic symbol seems unfamiliar when it's a small letter on a page. Is there a way to change its appearance so it will be, for example, like this one ?

The document has the following content
documentclass[10pt,twoside,book,a5paper]{ncc}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
usepackage{indentfirst}
begin{document}

section*{Введение}
...
ae textit{ae}
...
end{document}

egreg · Accepted Answer

You get a better shape with
documentclass[10pt,twoside,book,a5paper]{ncc}
usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}

lettgrelaxletctgrelax
letarctgrelaxletarcctgrelax

usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
usepackage{indentfirst}

DeclareTextSymbolDefault{ae}{T1}

begin{document}

section*{Введение}

ae textit{ae}

end{document}

The two let lines are to avoid four error messages one gets because ncc wants to define things that are defined by babel-russian afterwards.

Davislor · Answer

And a solution based on @egreg’s that uses Unicode OpenType fonts and runs in LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX:
documentclass[10pt,twoside,book,a5paper]{ncc}
tracinglostchars=2
lettgrelaxletctgrelax
letarctgrelaxletarcctgrelax

usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
usepackage{fontspec}
usepackage{indentfirst}

babelfont{rm}
          [Ligatures=Common]{CMU Serif}
babelfont{sf}
          [Ligatures=Common]{CMU Sans Serif}
babelfont{tt}
          {CMU Typewriter Text}

begin{document}

section*{Введение}
...
ae textit{ae}
...
end{document}

Change appearance of italic ae symbol

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