[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 #11 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> ---
(In reply to Hin-Tak Leung from comment #10)
> > 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.

It depends on what you think is most useful part of the table. Since
apparently that's Arabic alphabet then it's a good solution, if you need
something else then it's worth probably at least mention that.

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