Установка шрифтов, которые не отображаются после обновления до Windows 10 How to install fonts that are missing after upgrading to Windows 10

Область применения: Windows 10 Applies to: Windows 10

При обновлении с Windows 7, Windows 8 или Windows 8.1 до Windows 10 некоторые шрифты становятся недоступными по умолчанию после обновления. When you upgrade from the Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 operating system to Windows 10, certain fonts are no longer available by default post-upgrade. Чтобы сократить занимаемое операционной системой место, повысить производительность и оптимизировать использование дискового пространства, мы переместили многие шрифты, которые предоставлялись в составе предыдущих версий Windows, в раздел необязательных компонентов Windows 10. To reduce the operating system footprint, improve performance, and optimize disk space usage, we moved many of the fonts that were previously shipped with prior versions of Windows to the optional features of Windows 10. При установке нового экземпляра Windows 10 или обновлении более ранней версии Windows до Windows 10 эти необязательные компоненты не включены по умолчанию. If you install a fresh instance of Windows 10, or upgrade an older version of Windows to Windows 10, these optional features are not enabled by default. В результате, данные шрифты отсутствуют в системе. As a result, these fonts appear to be missing from the system.

Если у вас есть документы, созданные с использованием отсутствующих шрифтов, в Windows 10 они могут отображаться иначе. If you have documents created using the missing fonts, these documents might display differently on Windows 10.

Например, если у вас установлена версия Windows 10 на английском, французском, немецком или испанском языке, следующие шрифты могут отсутствовать: For example, if you have an English (or French, German, or Spanish) version of Windows 10 installed, you might notice that fonts such as the following are appear to be missing:

• Gautami Gautami
• Meiryo Meiryo
• Narkism/Batang Narkism/Batang
• BatangChe BatangChe
• Dotum Dotum
• DotumChe DotumChe
• Gulim Gulim
• GulimChe GulimChe
• Gungsuh Gungsuh
• GungsuhChe GungsuhChe

Чтобы использовать эти шрифты, можно включить необязательный компонент и вернуть их в систему. If you want to use these fonts, you can enable the optional feature to add these back to your system. Имейте в виду, что это изменение в поведении Windows 10 носит постоянный характер и сохранится в дальнейших выпусках. Be aware that this is a permanent change in behavior for Windows 10, and it will remain this way in future releases.

Установка языковых компонентов через языковые параметры Installing language-associated features via language settings:

Если вы хотите использовать шрифты из необязательного компонента и просматривать веб-страницы, редактировать документы или использовать приложения на языке, связанном с данным компонентом, добавьте этот язык в ваш профиль пользователя. If you want to use the fonts from the optional feature and you know that you will want to view Web pages, edit documents, or use apps in the language associated with that feature, add that language into your user profile. Это можно сделать в приложении «Параметры». You do this the Settings app.

Например, ниже указаны шаги для установки шрифтов для иврита. For example, here are the steps to install the fonts associated with the Hebrew language:

1. Щелкните Пуск > Параметры. Click Start > Settings.
2. В разделе «Параметры» щелкните Время и язык, а затем— Язык и региональные стандарты. In Settings, click Time & language, and then click Region & language.
3. Если иврита нет в списке языков, щелкните знак «плюс» (+), чтобы добавить язык. If Hebrew is not included in the list of languages, click the plus sign (+) to add a language.
4. Найдите иврит и щелкните его, чтобы добавить в список языков. Find Hebrew, and then click it to add it to your language list.

После добавления иврита в список языков устанавливаются необязательный компонент шрифта для иврита и другие необязательные компоненты для поддержки иврита. Once you have added Hebrew to your language list, then the optional Hebrew font feature and other optional features for Hebrew language support are installed. Этот процесс должен занять всего несколько минут. This should only take a few minutes.

Примечание. Дополнительные функции устанавливаются в Обновлении Windows. Note:The optional features are installed by Windows Update. Это значит, что для работы Центра обновления Windows требуется подключение к Интернету. This means you need to be online for the Windows Update service to work.

Установка необязательных шрифтов вручную без изменения языковых параметров. Install optional fonts manually without changing language settings:

Если вы хотите использовать шрифты в необязательном компоненте, но вам не требуется просматривать веб-страницы, редактировать документы или использовать приложения на соответствующем языке, вы можете вручную установить необязательные компоненты шрифтов без изменения языковых параметров. If you want to use fonts in an optional feature but don’t need to search web pages, edit documents, or use apps in the associated language, you can install the optional font features manually without changing your language settings.

В качестве примера ниже приведены шаги по установке шрифтов для иврита без добавления самого иврита в языковые параметры. For example, here are the steps to install the fonts associated with the Hebrew language without adding the Hebrew language itself to your language preferences:

Щелкните Пуск > Параметры. Click Start > Settings.

В разделе «Параметры» щелкните Приложения> Приложения и компоненты>Управление дополнительными компонентами. In Settings, click Apps, click Apps & features, and then click Manage optional features.

Если с списке установленных компонентов нет компонента Дополнительные шрифты для иврита, щелкните знак «плюс» (+), чтобы добавить компонент. If you don’t see Hebrew Supplemental Fonts in the list of installed features, click the plus sign (+) to add a feature.

Выберите Дополнительные шрифты для иврита из списка и нажмите Установить. Select Hebrew Supplemental Fonts in the list, and then click Install.

Примечание. Дополнительные функции устанавливаются в Обновлении Windows. Note:The optional features are installed by Windows Update. Для работы Центра обновления Windows требуется подключение к Интернету. You need to be online for the Windows Update service to work.

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Ниже приведен полный список семейств шрифтов в каждом необязательно компоненте. Here is a comprehensive list of the font families in each of the optional features. В некоторых семействах может быть несколько шрифтов с разной насыщенностью и стилем. Some font families might include multiple fonts for different weights and styles.

• Дополнительные шрифты для арабской письменности: Aldhabi, Andalus, Arabic Typesetting, Microsoft Uighur, Sakkal Majalla, Simplified Arabic, Traditional Arabic, Urdu Typesetting Arabic Script Supplemental Fonts: Aldhabi, Andalus, Arabic Typesetting, Microsoft Uighur, Sakkal Majalla, Simplified Arabic, Traditional Arabic, Urdu Typesetting
• Дополнительные шрифты для бенгальской письменности: Shonar Bangla, Vrinda Bangla Script Supplemental Fonts: Shonar Bangla, Vrinda
• Дополнительные шрифты для слоговой письменности канадских аборигенов: Euphemia Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Supplemental Fonts: Euphemia
• Дополнительные шрифты для письменности чероки: Plantagenet Cherokee Cherokee Supplemental Fonts: Plantagenet Cherokee
• Дополнительные шрифты для упрощенного китайского письма: DengXian, FangSong, KaiTi, SimHei Chinese (Simplified) Supplemental Fonts: DengXian, FangSong, KaiTi, SimHei
• Дополнительные шрифты для традиционного китайского письма: DFKai-SB, MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, PMingLiU Chinese (Traditional) Supplemental Fonts: DFKai-SB, MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, PMingLiU
• Дополнительные шрифты для письма деванагари: Aparajita, Kokila, Mangal, Sanskrit Text, Utsaah Devanagari Supplemental Fonts: Aparajita, Kokila, Mangal, Sanskrit Text, Utsaah
• Дополнительные шрифты для эфиопской письменности: Nyala Ethiopic Supplemental Fonts: Nyala
• Дополнительные шрифты для письма гуджарати: Shruti Gujarati Supplemental Fonts: Shruti
• Дополнительные шрифты для письма гурмукхи: Raavi Gurmukhi Supplemental Fonts: Raavi
• Дополнительные шрифты для иврита: Aharoni Bold, David, FrankRuehl, Gisha, Levanim MT, Miriam, Miriam Fixed, Narkism, Rod Hebrew Supplemental Fonts: Aharoni Bold, David, FrankRuehl, Gisha, Levanim MT, Miriam, Miriam Fixed, Narkism, Rod
• Дополнительные шрифты для японской письменности: Meiryo, Meiryo UI, MS Gothic, MS PGothic, MS UI Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PMincho, Yu Mincho Japanese Supplemental Fonts: Meiryo, Meiryo UI, MS Gothic, MS PGothic, MS UI Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PMincho, Yu Mincho
• Дополнительные шрифты для письменности каннада: Tunga Kannada Supplemental Fonts: Tunga
• Дополнительные шрифты для кхмерской письменности: DaunPenh, Khmer UI, MoolBoran Khmer Supplemental Fonts: DaunPenh, Khmer UI, MoolBoran
• Дополнительные шрифты для корейской письменности: Batang, BatangChe, Dotum, DotumChe, Gulim, GulimChe, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe Korean Supplemental Fonts: Batang, BatangChe, Dotum, DotumChe, Gulim, GulimChe, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe
• Дополнительные шрифты для лаосской письменности: DokChampa, Lao UI Lao Supplemental Fonts: DokChampa, Lao UI
• Дополнительные шрифты для письменности малаялам: Karthika Malayalam Supplemental Fonts: Karthika
• Дополнительные шрифты для письменности ория: Kalinga Odia Supplemental Fonts: Kalinga
• Дополнительные общеевропейские шрифты: Arial Nova, Georgia Pro, Gill Sans Nova, Neue Haas Grotesk, Rockwell Nova, Verdana Pro Pan-European Supplemental Fonts: Arial Nova, Georgia Pro, Gill Sans Nova, Neue Haas Grotesk, Rockwell Nova, Verdana Pro
• Дополнительные шрифты для сингальской письменности: Iskoola Pota Sinhala Supplemental Fonts: Iskoola Pota
• Дополнительные шрифты для сирийской письменности: Estrangelo Edessa Syriac Supplemental Fonts: Estrangelo Edessa
• Дополнительные шрифты для тамильской письменности: Latha, Vijaya Tamil Supplemental Fonts: Latha, Vijaya
• Дополнительные шрифты для письменности телугу: Gautami, Vani Telugu Supplemental Fonts: Gautami, Vani
• Дополнительные шрифты для тайской письменности: Angsana New, AngsanaUPC, Browallia New, BrowalliaUPC, Cordia New, CordiaUPC, DilleniaUPC, EucrosiaUPC, FreesiaUPC, IrisUPC, JasmineUPC, KodchiangUPC, Leelawadee, LilyUPC Thai Supplemental Fonts: Angsana New, AngsanaUPC, Browallia New, BrowalliaUPC, Cordia New, CordiaUPC, DilleniaUPC, EucrosiaUPC, FreesiaUPC, IrisUPC, JasmineUPC, KodchiangUPC, Leelawadee, LilyUPC

Cyrillic fonts in windows

Ok, you work with MS Windows and would like to browse Russian language Web sites or just use Cyrillic in a word processor.

If you are not going to work with Cyrillic (Russian) on the Internet , and would like to, say, just create a Russian document in then you do not need to read this, section and can go directly to the next section of this that will help you to use Russian in a word processor or a text editor:
«Cyrillic fonts included into Windows» .

Different authors of Cyrillic Web pages use different methods to represent Cyrillic letters, that is, they use different encodings .
An encoding determines what code (numeric value) is assigned to each letter of a character set.
For example, in a coded Western European character set English letter ‘A’ has a code 65, German 228, etc.

The encoding method is directly related to the font used, that is, fonts are made for a specific encoding.

Historically (and unfortunately), there are several different , incompatible encodings for Cyrillic:

MS Windows uses «Windows Cyrillic» encoding .
In a browser’s menu this encoding is called or

On the Internet , encoding is used for Russian in Mail and News, as well as on some Russian language Web sites

Macintosh uses «Mac Cyrillic» encoding

Unix computers use either «Cyrillic ISO-8859-5» encoding or KOI8-R

The difference is that the same Cyrillic letters have different codes in these encodings and this is why they are incompatible.
That is,

A text written under Macintosh will look as a meaningless set of characters under Windows, because Cyrillic fonts there are made for encoding and thus Cyrillic letters are not on the positions that assumes

It could happen even within one environment, say, under if one person writes in a text editor a Russian text (f.e. abc.TXT file) using a font of KOI8-R encoding, and another person will try to read this Russian text with a font that belongs to encoding, then this second person will see only some meaningless set of letters.

Again, it happens so because fonts are made for specific encodings and a text is stored in computers as a set of the codes representing the letters.
For example, English word ‘dog’ is stored as a set of codes for the corresponding letters:
English letters have the same codes in various encodings, and thus the word ‘dog’ will be readable with any font on any computer (even Japanese).

For Cyrillic it’s not the case. For example, a Russian word for «three» has the following Russian letters in .
Written with a font of Cyrillic encoding, it will be stored as these are the codes assigned to these letters in this encoding.

Now, if we try to read this text using some other encoding’s font, say, of or encoding, where same Cyrillic letters have , then the text will be unreadable.

For example, in a font these 3 codes represent absolutely different Russian letters, so this will be shown as the following set of Russian that does not make any sense.

It was a small piece of the theory/explanation and now back to the practice.

An MS Windows user usually deals with the following two Cyrillic encodings on the Web :

Windows-1251 encoding
(often called CP-1251 where CP stands for )

In a browser’s menu this encoding is called or

Note. In non-Web applications under MS Windows — such as editors and people use only one encoding for it’s what Microsoft uses for the system:
all Microsoft fonts that support Cyrillic are fonts made for encoding as well as Cyrillic keyboard tools.

Modern browsers and mail/news programs — MS Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MS Outlook, and higher, Mozilla, do not require fonts to process encoding
Moreover, such modern programs just do not work with fonts.
The explanation will be given right below, in the next section devoted to

Older systems (such as Windows 3.1/3.11) and older programs (such as did require KOI8-R fonts.
Some applications still require fonts, but they are not main-stream programs, very few people use them (f.e. some Terminal emulation programs, older versions of e-mail program Eudora).

I do offer to download free fonts for this type of users (older systems, rare software), but I’ve placed the corresponding information at the end of this page, because it’s rarely it’s in the section of this page called
«Free non-Microsoft , ‘old’ (made for Windows 3.1) Russian fonts»

Why an MS Windows user needs to know about encoding ?
How come then this user does not need

KOI8-R, as well as other Cyrillic encodings, is used sometimes to represent a Russian text on a Web page, but its main purpose is to serve as a network, transport encoding since the early days of the Internet.
You see, different computers use different local encodings for Russian:

• MS Windows machines — encoding
• OS/2 machines as well as users of DOS and FIDO7 CP-866 encoding
• UNIX — ISO-8859-5 encoding (in Russia is also used on UNIX)
• Apple Macintosh — ‘Mac Cyrillic’ encoding

Unfortunately, these encodings are incompatible . It’s how it happened back in the computer history, and now it’s a reality.
That is, a Mac user can not read a text without a special conversion, and vice versa.

So, how all these different computers exchange Russian messages over the global network, the Internet ?
They use a ‘common ground’ — encoding that serves as a ‘transport’ encoding.
Most of the Internet-related software that can work with Cyrillic (Mail and News servers as well as e-mail client programs and Newsreaders) ‘know’ that is a network encoding, and when a Russian message ‘travels’ over the Internet in this encoding, all different computers know how to handle it.
That is, say a Macintosh e-mail program did not need to know how to process all numerous Cyrillic encodings, it had to know only its own, local one, plus as a ‘transport’ encoding.
(Surely, if a program can not work with Cyrillic at all , for example, English version of , then it does not know about any of Russian encodings, including KOI8-R).

Imagine, if all various computers send messages to the Internet in their own local encodings !

The simplest example is Newsgroups. A Newsgroup can be read by a user of Mac, Windows, or Unix. Then messages in this Newsgroup just must use Cyrillic encoding for a user of each platform to be able to read it.
Now imagine that this News Server keeps a thread (with Cyrillic in Subject) of a Russian-language Newsgroup where one message is from a Unix another message is from an or DOS another one from a Windows
Such thread will be unreadable for any user.

Having only one , common encoding for the Russian messages travelling over the Internet, resolves the situation, and this common encoding KOI8-R:
KOI8-R was used as a for Russian in the areas of e-mail, Telnet, etc. from the early days of the Internet, even when the Web did not exist, so all Internet-related programs developed to work with Cyrillic were built with the assumption that a network encoding is

It’s why most e-mail letters in Russian are sent in and most of Russian language use that makes Newsgroups articles readable by a user of any type of computer.

Obviously, a group of users where everyone say works under Windows, can decide that they will exchange messages in encoding via e-mail or in Windows-only Newsgroup.

But in reality, even Windows-only Newsgroups such as ones of microsoft.public.ru.russian.* hierachy (microsoft.public.ru.russian.windowsxp et al) still use

That is, KOI8-R is a de-facto standard for the exchange of Russian texts over the Internet , it’s a network encoding, while different computers use different local encodings for Russian. One of such local encodings is on a machine running

KOI8-R and Internet software under MS Windows

A user of MS Windows needs an ability to work with encoding in addition to the ‘native’ Russian encoding of a Windows-based Windows-1251:

• there are Russian language Web pages in
  That is, your browser needs to display text.
  Some of pages contain also forms to be filled out, that is, they expect an input of text in addition to the display of the text
• e-mail letters need to be sent to the Internet in KOI8-R and incoming e-mail letters in most cases arrive from the Internet in KOI8-R
• Russian Usenet Newsgroups (Discussion Groups) use so their articles contain a text. New articles should be posted to a Newsgroup in too.

If a software used in the cases listed above is an old one or not sophisticated enough, then a user must install fonts (offered down below on this page) and keyboard tools (offered in the Russian Keyboard section of my site) to be able to read and write in

Otherwise, if a program is a modern one, it allows an MS Windows user work only with a local a user does not need fonts and keyboard tools.
For instance, an e-mail letter can be typed using fonts and keyboard tools, but will be in to ‘travel’ over the network in this encoding, as required.

Here are some of such modern Internet programs:

• Internet Explorer
• Outlook Express
• MS Outlook ver. 2000 and higher
• Netscape ver. 4 and higher and its Mail and News components
• Mozilla and its Mail and News components

These programs perform, all necessary conversions of the Russian text between and when needed.
Therefore, if you have these programs, you do NOT need fonts and keyboard tools:

• reading of texts
  These programs convert text to text before displaying it to you (displaying with native fonts such as «Arial») , in the following cases:
  
  to show you a Web page

  to show you an incoming e-mail letter that arrived from the according to the in the network encoding KOI8-R

• to show you a article of a Russian
  (again, most Russian language Newsgroups use as a , because a user can post and read articles from different UNIX, Mac, Windows, etc.)

writing in that is, a creation of text.
Modern programs convert your input (which you made using Windows-1251 fonts and keyboard native for
to text when needed:

an e-mail letter or a message to be posted to a
you type it using fonts and keyboard tools, and then this software converts your text to the ‘transport’ encoding before sending your message to the Internet .

Obviously, a program will do that only if you let it via its that you want to send in

a form on a Web page — you type using fonts and keyboard tools, but your browser knows that this is a KOI8-R page that expects a input in its form, so browser performs the conversion and only then sends the form’s input to the server.

MS Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MS Outlook 2000, Netscape, Mozilla — all these programs have to be tuned-up for Russian, you need to know how to work with Russian using these programs.
After you finish reading this Fonts and Encodings page, please see the corresponding tune-up instructions for the programs listed above on my page
«Russian in Browsers/Mail/News under Windows» .

Other programs (e-mail programs, graphic programs, music programs, etc.) require their own, unique tune-up for Russian.
I personally know the tune-up only for the programs listed above, so if you need to tune-up say Eudora or WinAMP, then please see the links to other people sites in the section of my site.

Generally, World Wide Web uses 2 methods to show you a text on your screen:

Hypertext pages — main Web pages, such as some Home Page.
For example, a page of Yahoo! search — http://www.yahoo.com/ index.html .

Plain Text pages, such as a screen showing a directory of files,
for example, McAfee VirusScan FTP ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/datfiles/english/
or a screen showing a content of a file in this directory, for example, file readme. txt : ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/datfiles/english/readme. txt

Each type of a page requires its own type of font to be used in your browser:

Proportional width fonts — for Hypertext pages
(Netscape 4 uses different name — Variable width fonts)

Example — «Arial» or «Times New Roman»

Fixed width fonts ( Monospace fonts) — for Plain Text pages

Example — «Courier New»

4 new Cyrillic True Type fonts in your Windows:

• Proportional and Fixed fonts for encoding
• Proportional and Fixed fonts for encoding

Reminder. MS IE ver. 3.02 or higher, and Netscape 4.0 or higher allow you to use fonts, even while working with a page. In this case, you don’t need fonts. —>

Microsoft’s Cyrillic CP-1251 fonts included into Windows

Some free non-Microsoft Cyrillic fonts (of and encoding families) are offered in the next section.

But C ode P age 1251 ( CP-1251 ) is what Microsoft uses for Cyrillic in
(the following alternative names are often used for the Cyrillic CP-1251 encoding:
«Cyrillic(Windows)», «Windows-1251»).

That is, whenever you see «Cyrillic» in a Microsoft’s font or keyboard description, it really means

Therefore, for this , native-for-Windows encoding you should, instead of downloading some old non-Microsoft fonts, use of much better quality that are already included into your Windows.
Moreover, many modern applications just do not work with such old fonts, they work only with modern Unicode fonts included into Windows, such as «Arial» et al.
(There is also no need in most cases to download fonts as it was explained above, modern programs do not work with fonts, they process texts without such fonts).

Cyrillic letters of encoding are present in such standard multilingual Windows fonts as «Arial»,

These standard Microsoft Cyrillic fonts are available on all modern versions of Windows, even when it’s a non-Russian Windows
(for non-Russian Windows 3.1/3.11 it’s not the case and a user must download those free non-Microsoft fonts offered in the next section) .

Here is the procedure of checking the availability and/or activation of these standard fonts of encoding included into

1. Russian (localized) versions of MS Windows

Users of Russian versions of MS Windows already have such CP-1251 fonts activated (as well as users of ).

Just open Wordpad editor (Start/Programs/Accessories/Wordpad) and see Cyrillic variations of several fonts, for example, you will see, in addition to the the following:

• Proportional fonts — «Arial (Cyrillic)»,
• Fixed — «Courier New (Cyrillic)»

2. Windows 95/98/ME

Most users of the U.S. version (or other non-Russian version) of initially don’t have these Cyrillic variations of standard Microsoft fonts.
To activate Cyrillic in the standard MS fonts, these users must install a free Microsoft usually via Control Panel.
(In addition to the fonts , this activates Cyrillic keyboard files, too).

3. Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista

Users of the U.S. (or any other non-Russian) version of Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista already have such standard, fonts active!

Here are couple ways to verify that:

If you have Internet access, go to a Russian site such as say «Search Engine Yandex» and see for yourself that Russian text is readable Ok there.
It means that standard Windows fonts that browser uses for «Arial» or do contain Cyrillic, otherwise you would not see any readable text on that site.

Open Wordpad editor (Start/Programs/Accessories/Wordpad) and see Cyrillic variations of several fonts, for example, you will see, in addition to the the following:

• Proportional fonts — «Arial (Cyrillic)»,
• Fixed — «Courier New (Cyrillic)»

Important Windows 2000 note:

Eventhough Cyrillic fonts are already active in Windows 2000, it requires a special procedure to enable full Cyrillic support for a user, for example, enable encoding conversion and/or getting Russian keyboard layout file.
That is, a user of must perform the following additional steps (not required under ) .

How to enable full user-level Cyrillic support under Windows 2000:

1. Start / Settings / Control Panel
2. In the CONTROL PANEL window — double-click on the globe-like icon
3. In the Regional Options window, in its General tab, see the second
4. See if you have a box «Cyrillic» checked.
   If not, then click on this box to activate user-level Cyrillic support and then click on Apply below right.
   You will be asked to insert the and then the required files will be copied from there.

You saw above how to enable Cyrillic(Windows-1251) support in standard MS fonts that are included into

So, if you, with your version of MS Windows:

• have now these nice Cyrillic Windows-1251 letters in the standard multilingual Windows fonts such as «Arial»
  and
• do not need KOI8-R fonts
  (that is, as was explained in details above, you use modern systems and modern Internet programs as it was explained let you work with texts without the need for fonts and keyboard tools; or you don’t use Russian on the Web at all, just in word processing)

then you should skip the rest of this fonts-related page , because the text below is about those old free non-Microsoft KOI8-R and CP-1251 Russian fonts that I collected from the Web while working with
These old free non-Microsoft KOI8-R and CP-1251 Russian fonts just do not work in modern programs such as Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Mozilla, etc. so users of such programs have no reason to read the rest of this page.
(Modern programs work with modern, Unicode fonts included into MS Windows, such as «Arial» et al)

Below you will find download location and descriptions for free Cyrillic both and that I found on the Internet, tested , and suggest to use for the work under in some rare-case situations only.

Important. As it was explained right above, at the end of the previous section, you need these old non-Microsoft fonts only in the following cases (the majority of Windows users don’t need them):

you work with Windows 3.1/3.11

or

you need KOI8-R fonts
As it was described in details at the beginning of this page, you need fonts only if you work with some non-main-stream program such as Rare case!
Modern programs — as I described above — do not need (and do not work) with fonts, they process texts without that.

So only if you need the above rare-case scenarios, then read further, otherwise this page is over.

All these free non-Microsoft fonts allow you to read both English and Russian on the same page (they include English letters along with Cyrillic ones).

You need to create a directory(folder) on your PC where you will place these font files, for example, C:\RUSFONTS .

I have created a single file(archive) ForWWW.zip that includes all these free Russian fonts.

To download a file, you just need to click on its underlined name in a link below. Then your browser offers you to SAVE FILE .
In this SAVE FILE dialog, you need to select the directory(folder) that you created to keep font C:\RUSFONTS .

NOTE: If the browser instead begins to display the contents of this file on the screen, then try to download it again, but this time hold down the SHIFT key on your keyboard while clicking on that file.

After downloading the archive ( ForWWW.zip file), you need to it to extract the files in it.
You can extract files from the archive using the shareware program WinZip for Windows if you have it OR simply with the small free program pkunzip .
If you don’t have PKUNZIP, you can download it here: pkunzip.exe.
Put it into your Windows (or WinNT ) directory(folder), that is, into your main folder.

To extract font files using pkunzip , open an MS-DOS window first:

• in Windows 95/98/ME — Start / Programs / MS-DOS Prompt
• in Windows NT 4.0 — Start / Programs / Command Prompt
• in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista — Start / Programs / Accessories / Command Prompt
• in Windows 3.1, 3.11 it’s an icon «MS-DOS Prompt» in the Main group

and then type these two commands (the first one switches to the required directory (folder) and the second one does the extraction) :

NOTE: I have collected into ForWWW.zip such fonts that work Ok with old and other older programs under various versions of Windows.
If you found somewhere another version of the same font, it may not work correctly with or with some Windows platform (for example,

Remember, to work with Cyrillic in old browser, for example, you need to install at least 4 new Cyrillic True Type fonts in your Windows:

• Proportional and Fixed fonts for encoding
• Proportional and Fixed fonts for ) encoding (a.k.a «Windows-1251»)

(as it was decribed at the beginning of this page, modern browsers don’t work with fonts, they require only fonts)

a) KOI8-R fonts:

‘ER Bukinist KOI-8 Normal’ — Proportional font —
file bkkoi8n.TTF , dated December 20, 1995

‘ROL:KOI8-Courier’ — Fixed font —
file rolk8c1.TTF , dated February 27, 1997

NOTE. Under versions font ‘ROL:KOI8-Courier’ works with an error in while showing bulleted lists such as one on the Yahoo! search page.
Therefore, for these versions of NT you need to use another Fixed font:

‘ER Kurier KOI-8 Normal’ — Fixed font —
file cokoi8n.TTF , dated November 15, 1995

b) CP-1251(Windows) fonts:

‘ER Bukinist 1251’ — Proportional font —
file bk1251n.TTF , dated March 5, 1995

‘ER Kurier 1251’ — Fixed font —
file co1251n.TTF , dated September 17, 1995

Follow instructions below for Windows 3.1,3.11 and for newer Windows to install downloaded free fonts in your Windows system.

Windows 95 and newer :

1. Click on START , SETTINGS , CONTROL PANEL
2. Click on FONTS icon
3. In the menu, select FILE , INSTALL NEW FONTS
4. Select folder, where you have all these unpacked font C:\RUSFONTS .
   There is a button on the right — SELECT ALL . Click on it
5. Click on OK button

Windows 3.1, 3.11 :

1. In Windows 3.1, you have such group (window) as MAIN . It is where, for example, File Manager program is located.
   In this MAIN group there is an icon CONTROL PANEL . Open this application by double-click.
2. You will see, in this CONTROL PANEL window, several icons. One of them is FONTS .
   Open now this FONTS application by double-click.
3. You will see a list of fonts and several buttons on the right.
   One of them is ADD . Click on it. It will offer you to choose drive and directory.
4. Select directory, where you have all these unpacked font C:\RUSFONTS .
   There is a button on the right — SELECT ALL . Click on it.
5. Click on OK button. You will be back to the screen with the list of fonts.
6. Click on CLOSE button.

Now you have these Russian fonts installed in your Windows and ready to use if you need them in some non-modern Internet application such as for example