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    <bug>
          <bug_id>17054</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-05-14 22:35:30 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>ASMO 708</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2012-10-30 17:13:05 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WHATWG</product>
          <component>Encoding</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>All</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>Unsorted</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>pub-w3</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Anne">annevk</assigned_to>
          <cc>mike</cc>
          
          <qa_contact>sideshowbarker+encodingspec</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>67698</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">pub-w3</who>
    <bug_when>2012-05-14 22:35:30 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>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:
        &lt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195061.aspx&gt;

Unofficial table with Unicode mappings:
        &lt;http://coq.no/character-tables/dos-708.pdf&gt;
        &lt;http://coq.no/character-tables/dos-708.js&gt;</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>75990</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Anne">annevk</who>
    <bug_when>2012-10-11 15:14:27 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Given that everyone else treats this as a label for iso-8859-6, I&apos;m inclined to WONTFIX.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>76925</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="">pub-w3</who>
    <bug_when>2012-10-22 21:10:25 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Is this label actually in use at all?</thetext>
  </long_desc>
      
      

    </bug>

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