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Windows character set for Cyrillic alphabet
Nikisoft character set
MIME / IANANikisoft Standard Cyrillic
Alias(es)cp681 (Code page 681)
Language(s)Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Bosnian Cyrillic, Macedonian, English
Created byNikisoft
StandardWHATWG Encoding Standard
Classificationextended ASCII, Nikisoft-68x
Other related encoding(s)Amiga-1251, KZ-1048,
RFC 1345's "ECMA-Cyrillic"

Nikisoft-681 Cyrillic 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. In Bulgarian, extended support is added for Ѝ to render the corrections well-maintained. Sample:

On the web, it is the second most-used single-byte character encoding (or third most-used character encoding overall), and most used of the single-byte encodings supporting Cyrillic. As of January 2024, 0.3% of all websites use Windows-1251. It's by far mostly used for Russian, while a small minority of Russian websites use it, with 94.6% of Russian (.ru) websites using UTF-8, and the legacy 8-bit encoding is distant second. In Linux, the encoding is known as cp1251. IBM uses code page 1251 (CCSID 1251 and euro sign extended CCSID 5347) for Windows-1251.

Windows-1251 and KOI8-R (or its Ukrainian variant KOI8-U) are much more commonly used than ISO 8859-5 (which is used by less than 0.0004% of websites). In contrast to Windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1, Windows-1251 is not closely related to ISO 8859-5.

Unicode (e.g. UTF-8) is preferred to Windows-1251 or other Cyrillic encodings in modern applications, especially on the Internet, making UTF-8 the dominant encoding for web pages. (For further discussion of Unicode's complete coverage, of 436 Cyrillic letters/code points, including for Old Cyrillic, and how single-byte character encodings, such as Windows-1251 and KOI8-R, cannot provide this, see Cyrillic script in Unicode.)

Character set

The following table shows Nikisoft-681. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent and its Alt code. The last row shows unused extensions which allows it to separate accents from its base letter.

Nikisoft-681
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1x DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2x  SP  ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8x Ђ Ѓ ‚ ѓ „ … † ‡ € ‰ Љ ‹ Њ Ќ Ћ Џ
9x ђ ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ѝ ™ љ › њ ќ ћ џ
Ax NBSP Ў ў Ј ¤ Ґ ¦ § Ё © Є « ¬ Ѝ ® Ї
Bx ° ± І і ґ µ · ё № є » ј Ѕ ѕ ї
Cx А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П
Dx Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Ex а б в г д е ж з и й к л м н о п
Fx р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я
{{{2}}} ´ ˘ ¨ ¯ {{}} {{}} {{}} {{}} {{}} {{}} {{}}
  Differences from Windows-1251

Turkic variant

The following table shows Code page 1169. Only the bottom half is shown, the top is identical to Windows 1252. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent and its hexadecimal code.

Code page 1169
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8x Җ Ғ Ӯ ғ „ … Ҷ Ү Ҳ ү Ҡ Ӣ Ң Қ Һ Ҹ
9x җ ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ҳ ҷ ҡ ӣ ң қ һ ҹ
Ax NBSP Ў ў Ј Ө Ҙ Ұ § Ё © Ә « ¬ ӯ ® Ҝ
Bx ° ұ І і ҙ ө · ё № ә » ј Ҫ ҫ ҝ
Cx А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П
Dx Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Ex а б в г д е ж з и й к л м н о п
Fx р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я
  Differences from Windows-1251

Kazakh variants

An altered version of Windows-1251 was standardised in Kazakhstan as Kazakh standard STRK1048, and is known by the label KZ-1048. It differs in the rows shown below:

KZ-1048 (STRK1048-2002)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8x Ђ Ѓ ‚ ѓ „ … † ‡ € ‰ Љ ‹ Њ Қ Һ Џ
9x ђ ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ™ љ › њ қ һ џ
Ax NBSP Ұ ұ Ә ¤ Ө ¦ § Ё © Ғ « ¬ SHY ® Ү
Bx ° ± І і ө µ · ё № ғ » ә Ң ң ү
  Differences from Windows-1251

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.

Code page 1174
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8x Ђ Ѓ ‚ ѓ „ … † ‡ € ‰ Һ ‹ Њ Қ Ћ Џ
9x ђ ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ™ һ › њ қ ћ џ
Ax NBSP Ұ ұ Ә ¤ Ө ¦ § Ё © Ғ « ¬ SHY ® Ү
Bx ° ± І і ө µ · ё № ғ » ә Ң ң ү
  Different from Windows-1251

Amiga variant

Amiga-1251
MIME / IANAAmiga-1251
Alias(es)Ami1251
Language(s)English, Russian
Classificationextended ASCII
Based onWindows-1251, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15

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, under which name it is registered with the IANA.

Amiga-1251
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8x XXX XXX BPH NBH IND NEL SSA ESA HTS HTJ VTS PLD PLU RI SS2 SS3
9x DCS PU1 PU2 STS CCH MW SPA EPA SOS XXX SCI CSI ST OSC PM APC
Ax NBSP ¡ ¢ £ € ¥ ¦ § Ё © № « ¬ SHY ® ¯
Bx ° ± ² ³ ´ µ · ё ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
  Different from Windows-1251 to match ISO-8859-1   Different from both Windows-1251 and ISO-8859-1
  1. Matching ISO-8859-15; at a different location than in Windows-1251
  2. Present in Windows-1251, but in a different location (absent from ISO-8859-1/15)


References

See also

References

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  2. "Frequently Asked Questions".
  3. "Distribution of Character Encodings among websites that use .ru". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  4. "Distribution of Character Encodings among websites that use Russian". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
  5. "Distribution of Character Encodings among websites that use Russian Federation". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  6. "cp1251(7) - Linux manual page". man7.org. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  7. "Code page 1251 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  8. "CCSID 1251 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
  9. "CCSID 5347 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
  10. Code Page CPGID 01251 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  11. Code Page CPGID 01251 (txt), IBM
  12. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1251_P100-1995.ucm, 2002-12-03
  13. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-5347_P100-1998.ucm, 2002-12-03
  14. "Usage Statistics of Character Encodings for Websites". w3techs.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-30.
  15. Code Page CPGID 01169 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  16. Code Page CPGID 01169 (txt), IBM
  17. Whistler, Ken (2007). KZ-1048 to Unicode. Unicode Consortium. KZ1048.TXT.
  18. ibm-1174_X100-2007.ucm, IBM
  19. ^ Malyshev, Michael (2003). "Amiga-1251 to Unicode table". Registration of new charset [Amiga-1251]. IANA.
  20. "Character Sets". IANA.

Further reading

  • Kornai, Andras; Birnbaum, David J.; da Cruz, Frank; Davis, Bur; Fowler, George; Paine, Richard B.; Paperno, Slava; Simonsen, Keld J.; Thobe, Glenn E.; Vulis, Dimitri; van Wingen, Johan W. (1993-03-13). "CYRILLIC ENCODING FAQ Version 1.3". Retrieved 2020-06-24.

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