Brief Summary
- Developed by the Viet-Std
Group (Vietnamese Standardization Working Group) in 1992,
VISCII (pronounced as viskey) stands for Vietnamese Standard Code
for Information Interchange. TriChlor
organization is one of many non-profit organizations provides
VISCII fonts for free.
- This 8-bit code standard is promised
to standardize the way Vietnamese characters are being
interchanged across the Internet, including documents and email
messages. However, its standard status is still under reviewed by
the W3C, an International organization for the Internet standards.
- It has been implemented on many
computing platforms, including Windows, DOS, Unix, X-Windows, Mac.
In addition, many Vietnamese Web sites support it as their
Vietnamese coding standards.
NOTES:
1. Downloading these fonts will allow you to view Vietnamese
Web pages that support VISCII fonts.
2. However, if you want to type, edit, and print
Vietnamese documents in any Windows 3.1 or Windows 95/98 applications,
such as Microsoft Word, you have to do two basic things:
- Download VISCII fonts.
- Download WinVNkey,
a keyboard driver for Vietnamese characters. For instruction on
how to download and install it on your computer, click
here.
3. Because VISCII fonts are saved as ZIP files, you
will need an unzip program, such as WinZip
or Pkunzip,
to unzip it after downloading. For detailed instruction on how to
download and install these Zip/Unzip utilities, check our Software
Download Web page.
Instruction for
download VISCII fonts
- Click on the button Download
below.
- Select the
folder/directory you store the font file (viscii11.zip).
- After downloading
completed, go to the folder and double-click on the saved font
file (viscii11.zip) and using any unzip program to unzip
it.
- Open your Web
browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator (or Communicator), configure fonts for the browser,
and try to view any Vietnamese Web page. For instruction on how to
configure VISCII fonts on your browser, click on the link below.
- Configuring
VISCII fonts for your Web Browser
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