Windows-1251

Windows-1251 is a popular 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages. It is the most widely used for encoding the Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian languages. 1.9% of all web pages use Windows-1251 in February 2016.^[1]

Windows-1251 and KOI8-R (or its Ukrainian variant KOI8-U) are much more commonly used than ISO 8859-5. In modern applications, Unicode is preferred.

Code page layout

The following table shows Windows-1251. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent and its decimal code. Legend:

Alphabetic   Control character   Numeric digit   Punctuation

Extended punctuation   Graphic character   International   Undefined

Windows-1251

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	NUL 0000 0	SOH 0001 1	STX 0002 2	ETX 0003 3	EOT 0004 4	ENQ 0005 5	ACK 0006 6	BEL 0007 7	BS 0008 8	HT 0009 9	LF 000A 10	VT 000B 11	FF 000C 12	CR 000D 13	SO 000E 14	SI 000F 15
1_	DLE 0010 16	DC1 0011 17	DC2 0012 18	DC3 0013 19	DC4 0014 20	NAK 0015 21	SYN 0016 22	ETB 0017 23	CAN 0018 24	EM 0019 25	SUB 001A 26	ESC 001B 27	FS 001C 28	GS 001D 29	RS 001E 30	US 001F 31
2_	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3_	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4_	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5_	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	_ 005F 95
6_	` 0060 96	a 0061 97	b 0062 98	c 0063 99	d 0064 100	e 0065 101	f 0066 102	g 0067 103	h 0068 104	i 0069 105	j 006A 106	k 006B 107	l 006C 108	m 006D 109	n 006E 110	o 006F 111
7_	p 0070 112	q 0071 113	r 0072 114	s 0073 115	t 0074 116	u 0075 117	v 0076 118	w 0077 119	x 0078 120	y 0079 121	z 007A 122	{ 007B 123	| 007C 124	} 007D 125	~ 007E 126	DEL 007F 127
8_	Ђ 0402 128	Ѓ 0403 129	‚ 201A 130	ѓ 0453 131	„ 201E 132	… 2026 133	† 2020 134	‡ 2021 135	€ 20AC 136	‰ 2030 137	Љ 0409 138	‹ 2039 139	Њ 040A 140	Ќ 040C 141	Ћ 040B 142	Џ 040F 143
9_	ђ 0452 144	‘ 2018 145	’ 2019 146	“ 201C 147	” 201D 148	• 2022 149	– 2013 150	— 2014 151	152	™ 2122 153	љ 0459 154	› 203A 155	њ 045A 156	ќ 045C 157	ћ 045B 158	џ 045F 159
A_	NBSP 00A0 160	Ў 040E 161	ў 045E 162	Ј 0408 163	¤ 00A4 164	Ґ 0490 165	¦ 00A6 166	§ 00A7 167	Ё 0401 168	© 00A9 169	Є 0404 170	« 00AB 171	¬ 00AC 172	SHY 00AD 173	® 00AE 174	Ї 0407 175
B_	° 00B0 176	± 00B1 177	І 0406 178	і 0456 179	ґ 0491 180	µ 00B5 181	¶ 00B6 182	· 00B7 183	ё 0451 184	№ 2116 185	є 0454 186	» 00BB 187	ј 0458 188	Ѕ 0405 189	ѕ 0455 190	ї 0457 191
C_	А 0410 192	Б 0411 193	В 0412 194	Г 0413 195	Д 0414 196	Е 0415 197	Ж 0416 198	З 0417 199	И 0418 200	Й 0419 201	К 041A 202	Л 041B 203	М 041C 204	Н 041D 205	О 041E 206	П 041F 207
D_	Р 0420 208	С 0421 209	Т 0422 210	У 0423 211	Ф 0424 212	Х 0425 213	Ц 0426 214	Ч 0427 215	Ш 0428 216	Щ 0429 217	Ъ 042A 218	Ы 042B 219	Ь 042C 220	Э 042D 221	Ю 042E 222	Я 042F 223
E_	а 0430 224	б 0431 225	в 0432 226	г 0433 227	д 0434 228	е 0435 229	ж 0436 230	з 0437 231	и 0438 232	й 0439 233	к 043A 234	л 043B 235	м 043C 236	н 043D 237	о 043E 238	п 043F 239
F_	р 0440 240	с 0441 241	т 0442 242	у 0443 243	ф 0444 244	х 0445 245	ц 0446 246	ч 0447 247	ш 0448 248	щ 0449 249	ъ 044A 250	ы 044B 251	ь 044C 252	э 044D 253	ю 044E 254	я 044F 255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

In the table above, 20 is the regular SPACE character, A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE, and AD is SOFT HYPHEN.

References

1. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_encoding

External links

• Windows 1251 reference chart
• IANA Charset Name Registration
• Unicode mapping table for Windows 1251
• Unicode mappings of windows 1251 with "best fit"
• Universal Cyrillic decoder, an online program that may help recovering unreadable Cyrillic texts with broken Windows-1251 or other character encodings.