- Vtopia, based on Robert Slimbach's Utopia,
- Vsibon, based on Jan Tschichold's Sabon,
- ...
Requests may be sent to: vietual(at)gmail.com. A URL should be included for purpose of verification.
2005-07-09
Shareware fonts for non-profit organizations
In order to encourage the use of Unicode for Vietnamese publishing, a collection of fonts will be donated as shareware to non-profit organizations. This collection includes both serif and non-serif fonts, such as:
Requests may be sent to: vietual(at)gmail.com. A URL should be included for purpose of verification.
Requests may be sent to: vietual(at)gmail.com. A URL should be included for purpose of verification.
2005-07-08
Legacy means lost opportunities
Việt Mercury, the weekly Vietnamese edition of Knight-Ridder's San José Mercury News, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, continues to be the only newspaper to publish online without using Unicode.
The newspaper refuses to modernize to Unicode, despite repeated complaints from readers of the print version. This is a rather strange business attitude to take, because web searches in Vietnamese never turn up any items from the online newspaper. Just click here to search for the most common Vietnamese family name -- "Nguyễn" -- on the site: there are no Google results.
Wouldn't this translate into lost opportunities for people to reach the newspaper via search hits?
The newspaper refuses to modernize to Unicode, despite repeated complaints from readers of the print version. This is a rather strange business attitude to take, because web searches in Vietnamese never turn up any items from the online newspaper. Just click here to search for the most common Vietnamese family name -- "Nguyễn" -- on the site: there are no Google results.
Wouldn't this translate into lost opportunities for people to reach the newspaper via search hits?
Gibberish: Another legacy problem
The London Tube publishes excellent maps of its system in various languages, at: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/maps/.
There is a problem with its Vietnamese version, though: it's gibberish.
Both the Vietnamese graphics and PDF file are encoded in the 8-bit VNI character set, but rendered in a Unicode font.
There is a problem with its Vietnamese version, though: it's gibberish.
Both the Vietnamese graphics and PDF file are encoded in the 8-bit VNI character set, but rendered in a Unicode font.
Yahoo!Mail localized to Vietnamese
Since 2005-06-15, Yahoo!Mail has been localized to Vietnamese, and six additional languages, at http://mail.yahoo.com.vn, which is a full Unicode application. The main http://mail.yahoo.com isn't (yet), so doesn't handle Vietnamese very well.
If you already have a Yahoo! account, you may also switch your interface to Vietnamese, by going to: http://edit.yahoo.com/config/set_intl, and pick "Yahoo! Vietnam" in the "New Setting" dropbox. The Vietnamese interface, however, may not all the features available with English.
There's even a help page in rather classical Vietnamese: http://help.yahoo.com/l/vn/yahoo/mail/
If you already have a Yahoo! account, you may also switch your interface to Vietnamese, by going to: http://edit.yahoo.com/config/set_intl, and pick "Yahoo! Vietnam" in the "New Setting" dropbox. The Vietnamese interface, however, may not all the features available with English.
There's even a help page in rather classical Vietnamese: http://help.yahoo.com/l/vn/yahoo/mail/
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