Question for experts/ wrapping - data pump

Hello All,
In am using ORACLE 10.2.0.4.0
i have an issue while export / import wrapped procedures:
I have some procedures / packages that are wrapped and when i do export for their related schema and then import it to the database, i got the below error
Compilation errors for PROCEDURE PROC_NAME
Error: PLS-00753: malformed or corrupted wrapped unit
Line: 1
Text: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE "PROC_NAME" wrapped
After i did many tests on this scenario i Noted that:
This error is not appearing on all procedures, there are some that will be corrupted after the import and some will not be corrupted.
After i did the normal import export, i found that the character set of the imp/exp is different then the one of the database, so i changed the character set of the database to be the same as the one used by the import, i redo my tests and i found that this solved the issue of normal imp/exp, so now and if i am doing normal exp/imp the recompilation of procedures will not fail after the normal old import. but at this stage the imp/exp character set has changed again.
The character set of my db was : AR8MSWIN1256 and when i did exp/imp it was for exp /imp AR8ISO8859P6, so i changed the one of my db to AR8ISO8859P6 , after changing the database character set to AR8ISO8859P6 the recompilation was working fine for the normal exp / imp, but now the character set for import/ export changed to AR8MSWIN1256 !! why ?
The Data pump export import was not solved even after changing the character set of the database, the procedures were imported with errors and it was fixed after recompiling it.
My issue that i have too many clients and i am not able always to change the character set of the database because i may face ERROR "ORA-12712: new character set must be a superset of old character set"
Hope the above description is clear,
Any suggestions or ideas to solve the issue of wrapped procedures with expdp/impdp? can i force certain character set for the expdp/impdp ? knowing that with release 10.2.0.1.0 the expdp/impdp is totally not working with the wrapped procedures

Any ideas?

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he) and especially
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>
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me and I very
> pleased at the time you spendwith me, my expertise
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> the end. You all need to do some homework to reach this
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> perplexed. I understand!! This sintax is quite
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> untrained eye but thankyou all anyway.
>
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>
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>
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>
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