Convert file encoding from ASMO-708 to Unicode

Hi,
I have txt files from a dos application. the files in ASMO-708/ISO-8859-6 encoding
i did a test program to see if i will be able to see the characters in Unicod(eclips-debug)
i read the file using
Reader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(txtfile ,"ISO-8859-6"));i did this on text file, what i found that i could read some characters and some not.
like character in asmo-708 is 0x99 should correspond to 0x0622(unicode)
but it respond to 0x3f which is undefined character.
my question is why some characters work and some not?
Thanks

Likewise Wikipedia, whose article about ISO-8859-6 says
"Code values 0x00�0x1F, 0x7F, 0x80�0x9F, 0xA1�0xA3, 0xA5�0xAB, 0xB0�0xBA, 0xBC�0xBE, 0xC0, 0xDC�0xDF, and 0xF3�0xFF are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-6."

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