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== Cyrillic keyboards ==
: See also [[Cyrillic alphabet]]

In the days of typewriters it was impossible to easily switch to a [[Latin alphabet]], so people used substitutions that looked "close enough" to be understood and interpreted as Roman numerals.

{| class='wikitable'
! Roman numeral
| Ⅰ
| Ⅱ
| Ⅲ
| Ⅴ
| Ⅹ
|-
! Cyrillic representation
| !
| П
| Ш
| У
| Х
|}

These substitutions were needed, because in Russia (and USSR) Roman numerals are commonly used to write a month in dates (thus non-ambiguously separating it from day and year).

This should '''not''' be confused with [[Cyrillic numerals]].