Windows 7 and 8 are sorting Arabic Characters wrong

The Arabic character A is comming on many differient shapes
A without hamza
A with hamza on top
A with hamza under
A with hamza on waw
A with hamza on nabra
A with hamza on alef mqsoora
A With madda
But all of them are considered as "A" and always on top of the sort on windows XP
Lately - on windows 7 and 8 the sort is not right -
hamza on waw is considered as waw
hamza on nabra is considered as yaa
So, names like Loay and We-aam are sorted badely
I have more than one million names to be sorted
The following is win Xp correct sort
لؤي
لئي
لبي
ليي
The following is win7 and 8 wrong sort
لبي
لؤي
ليي
لئي
Both sort are done on excell 2007
Is there a solution

Many thanks for your comment
Sory I thought this is for project application
This sort problem I noticed during developping a VB project.
This project is for more than 1,000,000 votes.
On win7 and 8, when Listbox.sort property equals SORT then sort problem appears
On win Xp, when Listbox.sort property equals SORT sorting is ok
Is (VB project) a (project application)
Should I move it or keep it here?

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