diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9dae12c21..7289208dc 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2003-10-15 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * lang/russian-windows-1251: wrong charset (bug 823939)
+
 2003-10-14 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * server_privileges.php3: bug 707516, sometimes db privileges
       are not shown
diff --git a/lang/russian-windows-1251.inc.php3 b/lang/russian-windows-1251.inc.php3
index 819ba382d..aba1e2a4c 100644
--- a/lang/russian-windows-1251.inc.php3
+++ b/lang/russian-windows-1251.inc.php3
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *               Nicolay Zakharov <info at melody.org.ru> 16-Dec-2002
  */
 
-$charset = 'koi8-r';
+$charset = 'windows-1251';
 $text_dir = 'ltr';
 $left_font_family = 'sans-serif';
 $right_font_family = 'sans-serif';