 <p><strong>Windows-1251</strong> or <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page" rel="nofollow">code page</a> CP1251</strong> is a popular 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script" rel="nofollow">Cyrillic script</a> such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages. It is the most widely used for encoding the Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian languages. In modern applications, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode" rel="nofollow">Unicode</a> is a preferred character set.</p> <p><em>Source and more information: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1251" rel="nofollow">Windows-1251</a> on the English Wikipedia</em></p>