Talk:VISCII

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[edit] Is viscii actually an official standard?

Given that is has standard in its name i think thats a point that needs clarification. Plugwash 03:03, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Depends on your defintion of official. It isn't a government standard.

From http://www.vnet.org/vietstd/report/rep92.htm

Viet-Std: A non-profit group of overseas Vietnamese and other professionals working on software & hardware standards for the Vietnamese language.

It's similial to TSCII. And both groups failed to implement their encoding preference in Unicode, as ISO will only accept input from national standards bodies and the Unicode consortium only encoded pre-composed characters if required by an existing national standard.

Pjacobi 17:44, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

hmm at least according to the map given here every character in VISCII has a corresponding precomposed character in unicode. Plugwash 17:46, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Viscii is not an official standard for VN (where most Vietnamese speakers live) and I've never actually seen it used. I've seen VNI-encoded fonts and Unicode-encoded fonts, but never Viscii.

tphcm--208.51.23.195 05:17, 27 November 2005 (UTC)