OR, you can download, from the FREE MS Typography (TrueType core fonts for the Web),
the font verdan32.exe: Verdana for Win95/98 and NT
(asof Jan 25, 1999, ONLY the Verdana font has the Vietnamese Unicode hidden).
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/verdan32.exe
OR, if you own MS Office 97, the new font Tahoma (May 98) contains all Vietnamese characters but undocumented by MS:
Tahoma32.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/W95/EN-US/tahoma32.exe
For more information:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q188/0/81.ASP
To convert VISCII text to Unicode text(both endians): vis2u10.zip (18 KBytes)
Unicode text sample: vnuni.htm
(with Big-endian/Unix BOM-Bytes Order Mark)
Unicode text sample: vnums.htm
(with Little-endian/Intel/Microsoft BOM)
Netscape 4.0+ did a good job to read the BOM correctly and processed it accordingly.
(Internally the 2 files are different).
Another Unicode sample:
http://www.lang.duke.edu/unichtm/unichtm.htm
(in Little-endian/Intel/MS coded format with NO BOM)
(Vietnamese samples have some typos, and NOT font problems)
MS Windows 2000 has many more Unicode fonts containing Vietnamese-encoding:
Arial
Courier New
Palatino Linotype
Times New Roman
and the classic Tahoma and Verdana.
Use Accessories/Wordpad to see the fonts and the encoding.
Using your MS Internet Explorer 5.0 to visit the following websites:
http://kimle.net/unicode/aboutunicode.htm
http://www.uniViet.com/
http://dactrung.com/truyen/
http://www.thienthai.com
With LeVan's new Mozilla.exe, you can read easily by selecting View/Encoding/Vietnamese (VISCII), then Reload:
Same text in VISCII: vnvis.htm
Same text in VIQR : vnviqr.htm
Otherwise, read the old-fashioned text:
Same text in VIQR(no charset defined) : vnviq.htm
Same text captured in 2 pictures, if you have no VISCII fonts installed:
vnuni1.jpg...
vnuni2.jpg
Trichlor's VISCII-Unicode mapping is correct, so to speak: http://www.trichlor.org/vietstd/document/unicode.html
VISCII-Unicode mapping (with Hex and Decimal values):
visuni.txt
VISCII-Unicode mapping sorted by Unicode:
visuns.txt
VISCII-Unicode mapping sorted alphabetically by VIQR:
visuna.txt
VISCII, and many other fonts (VPS, VNI, etc.) are missing the pure Unicode for the currency of Vietnam, the DONG SIGN, at 0x20AB.
My description of the glyph: SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE AND UNDERLINED
(similar to the US CENTS sign)
Or go here to see it:
http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/normal/U20A0.html
Very rare species of websites:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~transnam/
http://www.sino-vietnam.com/
http://www.trigeminal.com/frmrpt2dap.html?1066
(Finally, software!)
CP1258-Unicode mapping extracted and sorted 1258maps.txt
Difference between VISCII / CP1258 in Unicode mapping:
cvis1258.txt or
dvis1258.txt
Remarks
MS Internet Explorer 4.0 cannot display correctly 4 Vietnamese characters using UHoaiW 2.1 font: dd DD a( A(
MS Word 97 cannot load correctly Big-Endian BOM Unicode text.
Project abandoned: many links are obsolete.
Reference kept for historical purpose only.
http://www.mozilla.org
Zipfiles contain: Mozilla.exe, Netscape.cfg and all .dll.
Built from WinFE for win32: NT 4.0 and Win95
Using: MS Visual C/C++ 5.0
Asof Aug.14, 1998, Vietnamese Enabling is included:
mozilla_x86rel_19980814.zip (1 904 kBytes)
readme_19980814.txt
Asof Aug. 09, 1998, Vietnamese Enabling Version from levan@hotmail.com:
x86rel_19980808_levan.zip(1 835 kBytes)
readme_19980808.txt
Asof July 28, 1998, run on NT 4.0 and Win95:
mozilla_x86rel_19980728.zip (1 833 kBytes)
readme_19980728.txt: built from
mozilla-19980728.tar.gz
Asof July 31, 1998, run on for NT 4.0 only:
mozilla_x86rel_19980731.zip (1 838 kBytes)
readme_19980731.txt: built from
mozilla-19980728.tar.gz and CVS online updated on July 31, 1998.
Don't know why it's not running on Win95: waiting on mozilla.org.
From the FAQ: better explanation of Mozilla binaries:
http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~7207tt/
Get, install Perl 5 and get this minimum GNU utilities needed to build under Win95: shortc95.zip (188 KBytes)
Will work also under NT 4.0, with no problem, thanks to a very well-done makefile.
