Cyrillic Fonts: The standard Cyrillic font used in Russia before the spread of Microsoft windows was based on the KOI-8 standard Code Page, which mapped Cyrillic letters into the lower ASCII ranges. This font did not include Latin letters. This made writing bilingual documents difficult. It is still widely used in Russia. In the last 3 years, however, a new international standard has been emerging, named the CP 1251 Code Page.
Russian and American programmers have produced a large number of joint Latin-Cyrillic fonts according to this CP 1251 protocol that allows for simple switching between the Cyrillic and Latin Keyboards. These fonts sort properly in both languages. Such fonts are used to produce the Traveller's Yellow Pages. See INTERNET for Cyrillic fonts used on the Internet at www.infoservices.com.