# Cyrillic text

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cyrillic-text/93300>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 30, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cyrillic-text/93300 "2006-03-30T01:43:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cyrillic-text/93300/1 "2006-03-30T01:43:35Z")

</div>

Dear all,

for an external software - undocumented as it is, of course, I need to  
provide  
some text in Russian in a .txt file. Unfortunately, as I use a German  
Windows/  
Linux computer, I haven’t found a way of telling my system that I want  
it  
to encode text as Cyrillic - choosing a Windows 1251 encoding and  
saving in Word as Encoded text always saves the document as Unicode,  
which  
the external software does not understand.  
Can you help me ?  
Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Axel E.