[Bug 39297] kernel32.IsValidCodePage and friends don't support code page 708.

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39297

--- Comment #10 from Hin-Tak Leung <htl10 at users.sourceforge.net> ---
(In reply to Dmitry Timoshkov from comment #9)
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS doesn't have a ready to use mapping
> for
> code page 708, however according to http://coq.no/character-tables/dos/en:
> "This encoding is an almost compatible superset of ISO 8859/6 (all Arabic
> letters in the same positions, only one incompatible assignment, adding
> line-drawing characters and lowercase French accented lowercase vowels)".
> So, codepage 28596 (ISO 89-6 Arabic) probably could be used and an alias/
> replacement.

"almost compatible superset" is a gross understatement and misdirection. I
found 28 code point differences and 45 additions out of 256. Depends on how you
count it, 28 (10%) or 73 (30%) incompatible is not "almost" compatible. "Almost
compatible" is a joke.

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