AATSEEL

The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

[Note:  The links below require an active internet connection.]

Special note for Windows 95/98 users:

If you use Win 95/98 you do NOT need to obtain fonts or keyboard drivers for Cyrillic. Microsoft includes Cyrillic support in Win 95/98. To install it do the following:
Open Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, click the Windows Setup tab, and select the Multilanguage Support check box. (Note: this will also install support for Greek, Central European, etc.) Click "ok" and exit. Also, don't forget to install a keyboard. In the same Control Panel, double-click on the Keyboard icon. Go to languages and choose the one you need. You will have to restart the computer for the changes to take effect. The keyboard layout provided is based upon the typewriter layout used in each language.

Setting up fonts and keyboard drivers for Windows

• Font Section. Links directly to the files. The font section organized primarily by codepage.
• Keyboard Section. Keyboards are listed primarily by codepage.
• Most of these links are to compressed files such as .zip. You will need a utility such as Unzip to decompress them.
• Links to font archives.
• Links to sites offering commercial fonts.

Fonts

• Unicode
  • True Type
    • Times New Roman (Location 2) (Location 3)
    • Arial (Location 2) (Location 3)
    • Courier (Location 2) (Location 3)
    • Arial Narrow
    • Arial Black (Location 2)
    • Bookman Old Style
    • Garamond
    • Haettenschweiler
    • Impact (Location 2) (Location 3)
    • Lucida Sans Unicode
    • Monotype.com
    • Tahoma
    • Verdana (Location 2)
    • Vera Humana 95
    • Metropol 95
    • Albertus
• KOI-7
  • TrueType
• KOI-8
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitectKOI8
    • ERBukinistKOI8
    • ERKurierKOI8
    • ERUniversKOI8
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
    • KOI8 Kurier.
    • KOI8 Kurier Fixed (monospaced).
    • KOI8 Times.
    • Leeds Cyr Koi8_1.
• cp866
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitect866
    • ERBukinist866
    • ERKurier866
    • ERUnivers866
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
    • Ersys Gavin Helf's package containg screen fonts for Windows.
• cp1251
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitect1251
    • ERBukinist1251
    • ERKurier1251
    • ERUnivers1251
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
    • Welkya. This is a collection of fonts which contains the following: Izhitsa - Old Bulgarian Font Sentry, ER Bukinist, Arabian Cyrillic, Timok Bulgarian Ariel, Courier, Roman, Times, Bulgarian Garamond, Dutch Roman, Italic, Palatia, Kursiv.
    • Hebar. This is a collection of fonts which contains the following: Hebar Normal, Bold, Bold Italic and Italic, Hebar Condensed, Condensed Light and Double Condensed Hebar Black, Extra Black, Condensed Black Hebar Extended, Round, Outline, Oblique, Relef, Hebar Light and Extra Light
    • Lazurski.
    • XSerif Cyr. Supports Russian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Macedonian.
    • XSerif Old Russian.
• Apple Standard
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitectMac
    • ERBukinistMac
    • ERKurierMac
    • ERUniversMac
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
• Old Church Slavonic fonts
  • Altrussisch
  • Slavist Fonts The Windows Version of Jake Jacobson's Cyril and Methodius for the Mac.
  • OCS Fonts. Also contains a Glagolitic font with the same keyboard mapping.
  • Kirillica Wincyr.
  • Lavra
  • Novgorod
• Other
  • TrueType
    • LeedsCyr (162k). A Set of Cyrillic fonts by Alec McAllister which are suitable for any Cyrillic language.

Keyboard drivers

• CP 1251
  • Homophonic keyboard for Windows NT. By the SovInform Bureau
  • Homophonic Keyboard for Win 95/Win 98. Contributed by Richard Robin.
  • Paul's Keyboards for Windows 95. This set includes both Russian national and AATSEEL (homophonic) layouts for cp 1251 and KOI8. You can either download a .zip file or an .exe file.
  • AATSEEL Keyboard layout for Windows 95. Put together by David Powelstock. Be sure to grab also the readme file.
  • Phonetic Layout for Windows 95. By Alex Lane.
  • Ukrainian Keyboard Drive for Windows 95 Supports KOI8 and cp1251 encodings. Provides a choice of keyboard layouts.
  • WinKey Gavin Helf's package which allows one to switch between a homophonic or QWERTY layout and the Russian national one for cp 866, cp1251, and KOI8. Also contains keyboards for Ukrainain, Belorussian, Latvian, Estonian, and Esperanto.
  • Windows Keyboards
  • Cyrwin A shareware package that contains a keyboard driver.
  • Keyboards More keyboards for Windows.
  • qwer1251.kbd A homophonic or QWERTY keyboard layout for cp1251.
  • Cyrillic Keyboard. Allows you to type Cyrillic characters (cp1251) with any Microsoft Windows application. Keyboard layouts are provided for Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and English.
  • Keyman. A programmable keyboard driver for both Windows 3.* and Windows 95.
• KOI8
  • Paul's Keyboards for Windows 95. This set includes both Russian national and AATSEEL (homophonic) layouts for cp 1251 and KOI8. You can either download a .zip file or an .exe file.
  • Phonetic layout for KOI8. By Alex Lane.
  • Ukrainian Keyboard Drive for Windows 95 Supports KOI8 and cp1251 encodings. Provides a choice of keyboard layouts.
  • WinKey Gavin Helf's package which allows one to switch between a homophonic or QWERTY layout and the Russian national one for cp 866, cp1251, and KOI8. Also contains keyboards for Ukrainain, Belorussian, Latvian, Estonian, and Esperanto.
  • qwerkko8.kbd A homophonic or QWERTY keyboard layout for KOI8.
• CP866
  • WinKey Gavin Helf's package which allows one to switch between a homophonic or QWERTY layout and the Russian national one for cp 866, cp1251, and KOI8. Also contains keyboards for Ukrainain, Belorussian, Latvian, Estonian, and Esperanto.
  • qwer866.kbd A homophonic or QWERTY keyboard layout for cp866.
• Other
  • FlexType. A keyboard for Bulgarian.

Font Archives

• The Foreign Language Font Archive for Windows. Contains numerous fonts for Windows, including fonts for Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian and OCS.
• Yamada Language Center Font Archive.
• Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive.
• Little Russia. Software Index.
• BRAMA. Provides Cyrillic fonts and keyboards plus detailed information on how to use them.

Commercial Sites

• Smart Link Corporation. Offers numerous cp 1251 fonts for Windows.
• ParaType. Offers several Cyrillic fonts for Windows.
• Unitype. Includes fonts for East European languages as part of its software.
• Fingertip Software.
• Microsoft.
• Translation Experts Ltd. As part of their software, they offer the true type font Pravda (cp 1251).
• Lexicon Bridge Publishers