[HanoiLUG] vietnamese language and Unicode

[Lars Adermalm]

Sorry for bulging into the discussion. To the best of my knowledge TCVN 6909 (Unicode) has since long ago replaced the legacy TCVN 5712 (ABC) standard and all public agencies are instructed to shift over to TCVN 6909 and not use the old standard any more. Can somebody better informed correct me if I’m wrong please?

 

Lars Adermalm

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From: hanoilug-bounces at lists.hanoilug.org [mailto:hanoilug-bounces at lists.hanoilug.org] On Behalf Of Phan Thái Trung
Sent: 05 July 2007 11:39
To: Hanoi Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [HanoiLUG] vietnamese language and Unicode

 

 

2007/7/5, Jean Christophe André <jean-christophe.andre at auf.org>:

Phan Thái Trung a écrit :
> FYI, TCVN (Vietnam Standard) 6909:2001 talks about Unicode/ISO, while
> old "TCVN3" told about non-standard 1-byte character font aka "ABC" font.
I suppose you mean TCVN 5712:1993 VN3 ? ;-) 

Note that you can not say it's "non-standard" since it has been
*standardized* by the TCVN vietnamese normalization organ!

It's not like those 20+ others encodings that has been used before in 
the whole country...

--
Jean Christophe "プログフ" ANDRÉ — http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/


I means TCVN3 is not ISO standard and is not supported in modern OS systems like WinXp or Linux. In fact, before Unicode, North VN ppl used to use TCVN3 (ABC) while South VN ppl like "VNI like" encoding. 
When we meet a document encoded by these old character sets, we can use the free Unikey toolkit to quickly convert them to Unicode content, even in rich-tech format, without losing old text format.



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