Amy and I watched a movie on DVD yesterday and the first menu on the DVD was a language selection choice. Something struck me as odd about the list though:
The choice in the lower right is supposed to represent Russian. In the Cyrillic script, Russian is actually written Русский (transliterated as "Russkiy"). The last two letters are ИЙ in upper case and ий in lower case. The weird mirror-image Roman n must have been the result of somebody trying desperately to bash Cyrillic letters into a Roman character set. I can't imagine a system that would render text like that by default, so they must have gone to some manual effort to specifically mirror the n. Madness!
The other letter shapes are all wrong too, especially the k which shouldn't have an ascender.
Anyway, I thought it was amusing. I'll forgive you if you don't.
After using http://www.identifont.com/ and answering approximately 50 questions about the fonts, I was able to identify that font as Gill Kayo Condensed. That particular font does not include the Cyrillic character set, so that explains the irregular character substitutions. Presumably their graphic designer loved the font so much that they did not want to switch simply because it lacked the correct characters.
2008-05-13T11:03:56Z