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I own a clone produced in Ukrainian Soviet Republic - "ОРЕЛЬ БК-08". It supports Cyrillic and Latin fonts.
The main idea is similar to ANSI.SYS approach for DOS. There is a special control symbol that is not displayed, but which will switch the current font when being sent to print.
The БК-08 had a РУС key on its keyboard that "switch" ...
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