[HanoiLUG] vietnamese language and Unicode

[Lê Xuân Thảo]

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Jean Christophe André wrote:

> Now we have plenty of old vietnamese documents all declared beeing
> encoded in ISO-8859-1 although they really are TCVN3 encoded, so it
> won't be easy to create auto-conversion tools for all these "still
> legaly needed" vietnamese administration legacy documents...
> 
> Think about it: it adds more difficulty to migrate to a modern operating
> system (say Linux) which won't support these bad hacks by default... We,
> Linux community in Vietnam, have some research job to do here!

now there is some steps toward that goal. I wrote some code based on
antiword codebase to convert all .vn characters in a MS documents to its
unicode counterpart. I'll try to release it on SFD but I cant actually
promise anything.
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