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Font encodings for Cyrillic languages

The Cyrillic font encodings support the following languages. Note that some languages can be properly typeset with more than one encoding.

`T2A`:
  Abaza, Avar, Agul, Adyghei, Azerbaijani, Altai, Balkar, Bashkir, Bulgarian, Buryat, Byelorussian, Gagauz, Dargin, Dungan, Ingush, Kabardino-Cherkess, Kazakh, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Karachaevskii, Karelian, Kirghiz, Komi-Zyrian, Komi-Permyak, Kumyk, Lak, Lezghin, Macedonian, Mari-Mountain, Mari-Valley, Moldavian, Mongolian, Mordvin-Moksha, Mordvin-Erzya, Nogai, Oroch, Osetin, Russian, Rutul, Serbian, Tabasaran, Tadzhik, Tatar, Tati, Teleut, Tofalar, Tuva, Turkmen, Udmurt, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Hanty-Obskii, Hanty-Surgut, Gipsi, Chechen, Chuvash, Crimean-Tatar.
`T2B`:
  Abaza, Avar, Agul, Adyghei, Aleut, Altai, Balkar, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Gagauz, Dargin, Dolgan, Dungan, Ingush, Itelmen, Kabardino-Cherkess, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Karachaevskii, Karelian, Ketskii, Kirghiz, Komi-Zyrian, Komi-Permyak, Koryak, Kumyk, Kurdian, Lak, Lezghin, Mansi, Mari-Valley, Moldavian, Mongolian, Mordvin-Moksha, Mordvin-Erzya, Nanai, Nganasan, Negidal, Nenets, Nivh, Nogai, Oroch, Russian, Rutul, Selkup, Tabasaran, Tadzhik, Tatar, Tati, Teleut, Tofalar, Tuva, Turkmen, Udyghei, Uigur, Ulch, Khakass, Hanty-Vahovskii, Hanty-Kazymskii, Hanty-Obskii, Hanty-Surgut, Hanty-Shurysharskii, Gipsi, Chechen, Chukcha, Shor, Evenk, Even, Enets, Eskimo, Yukagir, Crimean Tatar, Yakut.
`T2C`:
  Abkhazian, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Karelian, Komi-Zyrian, Komi-Permyak, Kumyk, Mansi, Moldavian, Mordvin-Moksha, Mordvin-Erzya, Nanai, Orok (Uilta), Negidal, Nogai, Oroch, Russian, Saam, Old-Bulgarian, Old-Russian, Tati, Teleut, Hanty-Obskii, Hanty-Surgut, Evenk, Crimean Tatar.

The `X2` encoding was designed to support all the above languages. Its name does not start with `T` because, for example, it contains no Latin letters (it is purely a Cyrillic glyph container); it therefore cannot be used in mixed-script documents along with the other `T*` encodings. Please consult Section 6.4 Naming conventions of the file `fntguide.tex` in the base LATEX distribution for details of the differences between LATEX font encodings and how they are named.

There are two other LATEX Cyrillic font encodings, `OT2` and `LCY`, that are not included in the base LATEX distribution. The first is a 7-bit encoding (hence the `O`) developed by the AMS; it is useful for typesetting relatively small fragments of text in Cyrillic, using a Latin transliteration scheme. The other, `LCY`, is an 8-bit Cyrillic encoding which is not compatible with the requirements for LATEX `T*` encodings (hence the `L`); thus it is not suitable for typesetting multi-lingual documents, but it can be used in Plain TEX-based macro packages because it is an extension of `OT1`. These two encodings are supported by babel and by ot2cyr.

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