Windows-1251
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Windows-1251 is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Macedonian and other languages.
Key facts
- Character encoding.name
- Amiga-1251
- Character encoding.mime
- Amiga-1251
- Character encoding.alias
- Ami1251
- Character encoding.by
- Microsoft
- Character encoding.standard
- WHATWG Encoding Standard
- Character encoding.lang
- English, Russian
- Character encoding.classification
- extended ASCII
- Character encoding.otherrelated
- Amiga-1251, KZ-1048, RFC 1345's "ECMA-Cyrillic"
- Character encoding.basedon
- Windows-1251, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/cp1251
- Commons category
- Windows-1251
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11 sectionsContents
- Character set
- Kazakh variants
- KZ-1048
- Code Page 1174
- Latvian variant
- Finnish variant
- Amiga variant
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Windows-1251 is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Macedonian and other languages.
On the web, it is the second most-used single-byte character encoding (or third most-used character encoding overall), and most used of the single-byte encodings supporting Cyrillic. , 0.3% of all websites use Windows-1251. It is by far mostly used for Russian, while a small minority of Russian websites use it, with 94.6% of Russian (.ru) websites using UTF-8, and the legacy 8-bit encoding is distant second. In Linux, the encoding is known as cp1251. IBM uses code page 1251 (CCSID 1251 and euro sign extended CCSID 5347) for Windows-1251.