# String to Windows-1251 conversion **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 6, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-to-windows-1251-conversion/224885 "2007-05-06T20:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bLaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@bLaf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bLaf)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-to-windows-1251-conversion/224885/1 "2007-05-06T20:15:44Z")
Hi! 🙂 i am trying to open a text file on a server with XML.load().The thing is, the filename is encoded in Windows-1251(cyrillic codepage) and i can’t make it open the file without converting the characters manually.Here’s the code i am using to load the file: > articleData = new XML(); > articleData.onData = function(data) { > data = data.split(" > “).join(”\r"); > articlebox.text = data; > trace(“LOADED DATA”); }; [//articleData.load](https://articleData.load)(“[http://193.68.185.166/ph/blog1/a/бг.txt](http://193.68.185.166/ph/blog1/a/бг.txt)”); doesn’t work!!! articleData.load(“[http://193.68.185.166/ph/blog1/a/Đ‘Đ“.txt](http://193.68.185.166/ph/blog1/a/%d0%91%d0%93.txt)”); // WORKS! Is there a way to convert the Cyrillic characters automatically to their %d version(via AS)? Or - is there a way to save UTF-8 encoded file names in Windows?(I know how to save UTF-8-encoded content in files(via Notepad) but Windows uses Windows’s codepages(1251 and 1252) to save file’s name). Thanks! – edit ---- i tried to pass the string to PHP and use URLencode(…) to convert it, but still no success.URLencode returns http%d0%… and so on(i.e. doesnt even keep slashes).