What is VISCII
VISCII stands
for Vietnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange.
It is proposed by the Viet-Std Group
(Vietnamese Standardization Working Group) in 1992 to promote the
standard coding for Vietnamese characters across the Internet and the
World Wide Web. Many Web sites have adopted it as characters coding
standard for Vietnamese on Net. Originally, it was developed by the
fact that there is not a standard set for coding Vietnamese on the
Internet yet. Thus, many Web surfers are often confused about which
fonts they should have on their computers and Web browsers in order to
read Vietnamese on Net. However, the Viet-Std Group is still
working on legal documents and technical documents before it's finally
accepted by the 3WC, an International body of Internet
Standardizations, as a coding standard. Meanwhile, the VPS
(Vietnamese Professional Society) has developed VPS fonts as another
option for Web viewing fonts of choice. VNSoft
has done the similar thing. Right now there are at least four sets of
Vietnamese fonts that are widely used on most of Web pages: VISCII
fonts, VPS fonts,
VNI fonts,
and TCVN
fonts, developed by the Vietnam Data
Communications .
What is VIQR
As we have
mentioned above, there is no standard for Vietnamese characters coding
yet, at least right now. Thus, many organizations and Net users try to
adopt another font convention that could be easy to write and
understand by everyone. As a result, VIQR was born as an alternative
choice of presenting Vietnamese characters on the Internet and the
World Wide Web. Originally, VIQR stands for Vietnamese Quoted
Readable, and it is also called as VietNet convention. Basically
speaking, VIQR convention is based on the popular ASCII (American
Standard Code for Information Interchange), a 7-bit coding standard.
For example, the following sentence is written in VIQR convention:
To^i ye^u nu+o+'c to^i tu+` thu+o+? co`n na(`m no^i.
The are another way of writing it, such as:
To^i ye^u nu*o*'c to^i tu*` thu*o*? co`n na(`m no^i
.
The advantage of using VIQR is users
can use it without downloading any special fonts in order to write and
read it. Yet, it takes time to get used to read and write actually.
For more information about this VIQR convention, check the
Viet-Std Group Web site.
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