Various Forms of Letters

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bugtilaheh and I were comparing different forms of various Cyrillic letters, and found that in Italicized Arial (and I think Helvetica) some letters have different forms. Compare: [sorry, too lazy to make a table right now, but these should line up]

д, г, и, й, т, в, ш, щ
д, г, и, й, т, в, ш, щ

Also, I found that uppercased Л becomes Л in Bookman Old Style. Are Cyrillic letters commonly written differently? Is it because they are in cursive, and as in our alphabet, cursive letters take on a different form? What about the printed letters, do they look roughly like the letters used in Verdana, Times New Roman, etc?

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