--- 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 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Jeffrey J. Hayden (=CD=F5=C1=FA=BE=D4/=A4=FD=C0s=BEs) Department of East Asian Moore Hall 382 Languages and Literatures 1890 East-West Road University of Hawai'i at Manoa Honolulu, HI 96822 eFax: 413 - 487 - 0389 [log in to unmask] http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jeffrey Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principl= e for people to talk. -- Langacker (1973:109) ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !