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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.

Character set
The following table shows Windows-1251. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent and its Alt code. }} ==Kazakh variants==
Kazakh variants
KZ-1048 An altered version of Windows-1251 was standardised in Kazakhstan as Kazakh standard STRK1048, and is known by the label . It differs in the rows shown below: Code Page 1174 Code Page 1174 is another variant created for the Kazakh language, which matches Windows-1251 for the Russian subset of the Cyrillic letters. It differs from KZ-1048 by moving the Cyrillic letter Shha from 8E/9E to 8A/9A. ==Latvian variant==
Latvian variant
Windows Latvian + Russian is a modification of Windows-1251 to support the Latvian language. It uses the letter Ō/ō, abolished in 1946 but still used in the Latgalian language while it lacks the letter Ŗ/ŗ. ==Finnish variant==
Finnish variant
Windows Cyrillic + Finnish is a modification of Windows-1251 that was used by Paratype to cover the Finnish language. This encoding is supported by FontLab Studio 5. This variant is missing the letters Š and Ž which are used in loanwords in Finnish and can be replaced by the digraphs SH and ZH. ==Amiga variant==
Amiga variant
Russian Amiga OS systems used a version of code page 1251 which matches Windows-1251 for the Russian subset of the Cyrillic letters, but otherwise mostly follows ISO-8859-1. This version is known as Amiga-1251, ==See also==
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