Fonts

[West Research]

To my knowledge, there are no specific web browser fonts.

Web browsers use the same fonts as other programs on your computer
system. As with a word processing program, you can change from the
default font to any other font installed on your computer.

A number of cyrillic fonts exist for the PC, MAC, and UNIX operating
systems, and should be installed (into the operating system) just as
you would any other font. As Max has pointed out, Infomeister is an
excellent source for such fonts. Many private companies also provide
cyrillic fonts.

However, cyrillic fonts come in at least four distinct varieties:

 * CP 866 (also known as DOS and Alternativy)
 * CP 1251 (Windows)
 * KOI-8
 * Apple Standard Cyrillic

In order to read files on the Web, the current font on your computer
must match the font used to create that file. While it is true that
KOI-8 fonts are widely used for creating Web files, other types of
fonts are also commonly used, so you may want one of each handy.

Once you have installed a cyrillic font into your computer system, the
procedure for using it depends on your web browser. Netscape lets you
change fonts under the 'Options' menu (the full menu sequence is
Options, Preferences, Fonts). Here you can choose a single proportional
font (for most elements of the web file) and a single fixed font. As
James West noted, Netscape is picky about using a KOI-8 for the fixed font.

Mosaic (or at least version 2.0 from NCSA) lets you set a separate font
for each element of the web file (headers, text, qouted text, etc.). I have
not worked with fixed fonts in this program, so cannot advise on that.

Brenden West