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Bug 17054 - ASMO 708
Summary: ASMO 708
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Encoding (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+encodingspec
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Reported: 2012-05-14 22:35 UTC by pub-w3
Modified: 2012-10-30 17:13 UTC (History)
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Description pub-w3 2012-05-14 22:35:30 UTC 
At least according to Microsoft, ASMO 708 is not quite the same as ISO 8859/6, but a mostly compatible encoding including, in particular, box-drawing characters and the essential set of accented lowercase letters needed for French.

Microsoft reference:
        <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195061.aspx>

Unofficial table with Unicode mappings:
        <http://coq.no/character-tables/dos-708.pdf>
        <http://coq.no/character-tables/dos-708.js>
Comment 1 Anne 2012-10-11 15:14:27 UTC 
Given that everyone else treats this as a label for iso-8859-6, I'm inclined to WONTFIX.
Comment 2 pub-w3 2012-10-22 21:10:25 UTC 
Is this label actually in use at all?