Cyrillic and Central East European fonts

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Cyrillic and Central East European character sets and links to fonts

Character sets important for Windows users are red
Character sets important for Internet are green
The fonts in the table are designed for use in Windows 3.1. For Windows 95, 98 and NT use UNICODE fonts instead - but there are some exceptions. See details below.

Character Set / Codepage	Languages for which codepage is used	Computer system where codepage is used	Fonts to download
Windows Cyrillic (1251)	Russian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Macedonian	Windows	XSerif Cyr (Info on XSerif fonts - normal typeface only) ER Bukinist 1251 (serifs) ER Kurier 1251 (fixed font) ER Univers 1251 (sans serif) ER-fonts are freeware (c) by Gavin Helf. They include normal, bold, italic and bold italic typefaces.
KOI8-R	Russian	Internet, WWW, E-Mail, Newsgroups, UNIX systems	ER Bukinist KOI8 (serifs) ER Kurier KOI8 (fixed font) ER Univers KOI8 (sans serif) ER-fonts are freeware (c) by Gavin Helf. They include normal, bold, italic and bold italic typefaces.
Apple Standard Cyrillic	Russian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Macedonian	Apple Macintosh	ER Bukinist Mac (serifs) ER Kurier Mac (fixed font) ER Univers Mac (sans serif) ER-fonts are freeware (c) by Gavin Helf. They include normal, bold, italic and bold italic typefaces.
ISO Cyrillic (8859-5)	Russian	?
DOS Cyrillic (IBM 866)	Russian	DOS	ER Bukinist 866 (serifs) ER Kurier 866 (fixed font) ER Univers 866 (sans serif) ER-fonts are freeware (c) by Gavin Helf. They include normal, bold, italic and bold italic typefaces.
Windows Central European (1250)	Polish, Czech, Romanian, Slovakian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Sorbian	Windows	XSerif CE (Info on XSerif fonts- normal typeface only)
ISO Latin 2 (8859-2)	Polish, Czech, Romanian, Slovakian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Sorbian	Internet, WWW, E-Mail, Newsgroups, UNIX systems	3 Latin-2 standard fonts (Arial, Courier, TNR) by Peter Soos links to other fonts
Apple CE	Polish, Czech, Romanian, Slovakian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Sorbian	Apple Macintosh
DOS Central European (852)	Polish, Czech, Romanian, Slovakian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Sorbian	DOS
Windows Baltic (1257)	Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian	Windows	XSerif Baltic (Info on XSerif fonts - normal typeface only)
ISO Latin 4	Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian	Internet, WWW, E-Mail, Newsgroups, UNIX systems	There is such a font in the package Leedsbit.zip

Important for Windows 95, 98, NT:
The fonts mentioned in the table have no correct "codepage" bit setting but tell the system to be either "Symbol" or Western fonts. This is necessary for use in Western versions of Windows 3.1. In Windows 95, 98 and NT, these fonts will work fine in all applications that use 8-bit-codepages, but they will not work in all UNICODE-based applications like MS Word 97. Also texts written in older versions of Word formatted with these fonts will not be correctly imported to UNICODE-based applications. Therefore, it is recommended in Windows 95, 98 and NT to use only UNICODE fonts. But there are some cases when you will have to use fonts for Windows 3.1:

If you want to read or write text files encoded in other codepages than Windows codepages (which are red in the table) - e. g. KOI-8 or ISO Latin 2 - in your text editor.
To read Web pages and E-Mail messages if your Web browser or mail client does not support UNICODE encoded fonts. UNICODE fonts are not supportet by Netscape Navigator older than version 4.0 and MS Internet Explorer older than version 3.0.