Cyrillic Asian encoding (Windows PT CP 154, Macintosh PT CP 254), created by Paratype, supports the Cyrillic alphabets of the Azeri, Bashkir, Buryat, Dungan, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Mongolian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuva, Uighur and Uzbek languages (NB!). Additional letters used in these languages occupy the positions of Serbian, Macedonian and Ukrainian letters, as well as some mathematic and other symbols. Paratype fonts also support the Unicode positions of the additional Cyrillic letters. For details, see Cyrillic Asian codepages in FAQ of the font project VEDI (in Russian). High-quality fonts for this encoding can be obtained at the Paratype font shop. Use the test page to check whether you font supports this encoding. Special keyboard layouts (KeyAsian) are offered for Windows 95 and 98.

Links

• Archive of Kirghiz fonts - File fontkg2.zip contains Paratype fonts Flora, Futura and Peterburg with full support of Cyrillic Asian and the additional Unicode characters
• CA Fonts - File contains the fonts Arial CA, Courier CA and Times CA with full support of Cyrillic Asian and the additional Unicode characters
• ER Bukinist Bashkir - Bashkir font, compatible with Cyrillic Asian. Contains Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar and Tuvan letters.
• Kirghiz fonts, compatible with Cyrillic Asian. All fonts contain Kirghiz and Tuvan letters, some with full support of the encoding and the additional Unicode characters.
• KZ Arial - Kazakh font, compatible with Cyrillic Asian. Contains Buryat and Tuvan letters.

NB! Azeri, Karakalpak, Tatar, Turkmen and Uzbek have officially switched into the Latin alphabet. Transition to the Mongolian script is under way in Mongolia. The Azeris in Iran use Arabic, the Kazakhs and Uighurs in China - Arabic and Latin scripts.