# Forum breaks when using Windows-1251 Cyrillic/Russian encoding

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-breaks-when-using-windows-1251-cyrillic-russian-encoding/135970>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 14, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-breaks-when-using-windows-1251-cyrillic-russian-encoding/135970 "2019-12-14T22:34:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stranik/32/85638_2.png) [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-breaks-when-using-windows-1251-cyrillic-russian-encoding/135970/4 "2019-12-15T06:25:09Z")

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We have several forums working in Russia. There is no problem if, as written above, UTF-8 is used. We did not experiment or set the encoding Windows-1251. What for? UTF-8 works for everything.

There was no blank page on any of the forums. The browser does not switch to windows-1251.

I tried in 3 browsers to force to expose Windows-1251. If the forum is in utf-8 we only gets the wrong encoding. A blank page is not observed.

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