Windows 1256 character coding for arabic

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[ original email was from Bernt Sandén - bernt.sanden@omxgroup.com ]
Hi,

We would like to use Windows-1256 for character coding of arabic characters in the SecurityDefinition message in FIX 4.2.

Windows-1256 is a code page used to write Arabic (and possibly some other languages that use Arabic script) under Microsoft Windows. It is a one byte representation of arabic where the lower half (0-127) is plain ASCII and the upper half is arabic.

Can we set 347=“Windows-1256” and use tags 350 (EncodedSecurityDescLen) and 351 (EncodedSecurityDesc)?

Windows-1256 is not one of the supported values of tag 347 so that’s why I am asking.

Bernt