Title: Russian Character Encoding
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Russian Character Encoding

 *  Resolved [Clicknathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clicknathan/)
 * (@clicknathan)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/russian-character-encoding/)
 * I’m trying to add Russian characters to a blog.
 * I don’t want to install the all Russian version of WP, though I’m sure it’s great,
   because English speakers need to be able to cut and paste into the WP backend,
   so words like Write and Manage still need to be in English.
 * Looking at the WP.ru site, they’ve encoded in utf-8. When I do so, I get a bunch
   of mumbo-jumbo.
 * Have a peep here: [http://dew.clicknathan.com/](http://dew.clicknathan.com/)
 * Update: I got it to work by adding: windows-1251 directly into my header.php 
   file – it didn’t seem to work at first but after a few refrehes, some fancy ctrl
   +z action, and a little Stephen Colbert, it worked.

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 *  Thread Starter [Clicknathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clicknathan/)
 * (@clicknathan)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/russian-character-encoding/#post-525028)
 * To clarify, I changed the charset setting from
 * > charset=”utf-8″
 * to
 * > charset=”windows-1251″
 * I’d received a couple of emails about this as my update above is less than concise.

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## Tags

 * [character](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/character/)
 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language/)
 * [Russian](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/russian/)
 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)

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 * Last reply from: [Clicknathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clicknathan/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/russian-character-encoding/#post-525028)
 * Status: resolved

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