--- Forwarded Message from JEFFREY J HAYDEN <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:04:54 -1000 (HST)
>From: JEFFREY J HAYDEN <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6809 Vietnamese support in MSWord
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>


On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Gus Leonard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm working with a faculty member on reading two documents in
> Vietnamese. One reads very well using OSX and OfficeX on a Macintosh
> with Lucida Grande font, as well as on a Windows 2000 machine with
> Offfice2000 and Vietnamese enabled with the Regional Options Control
> Panel, but the other is unreadable.
>
> It seems they were produced with different encoding schemes and I'm not
> familiar enough with the varieties for Vietnamese.  According to the
> faculty member, the readable document was in font VNI-Times, and the
> unreadable was in font ABC, though when I open them in Word, the font
> indicates the readable file is in VNI-Times font and the unreadable is
> in .VnTimeH .
>
> Any suggestions?

Vietnamese has several encodings floating around.  VNI, VSCII, TCVN, and
Unicode.  Try these sites for fonts and input methods:

        Vietnamese Language Homepage
        http://www.public.asu.edu/~ickpl/

        VNN Support Site
        http://support.vnn.vn/tiengviet/


                                        Jeffrey


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