# 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:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 6:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-breaks-when-using-windows-1251-cyrillic-russian-encoding/135970/5 "2019-12-15T06:33:55Z")

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cp1251 isn’t dead yet, so I’m not stunned to hear that some users still have a browser which defaults to it.

As of this month(16/12/19) [a little over 11% of .ru sites use windows-1251](https://w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/tld-ru-/character_encoding).

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