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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:47:58 +0930

vietnamese fonts for linux? (chu+~ Vie^.t)

Has anyone worked out how to view Vietnamese fonts in
a linux browser?

I've been trying to do this for several years,
and have found zillions of fonts and encoders etc.
for MS software, and a tiny trickle for Unix (some
X windows and TeX fonts), but not a sausage for
linux browsers.
Well, my Netscape 4.77 does seem to support some sort
of viscii in the font selection thing, but I can't find
any VN sites which use viscii.
The encodings used for vietnamese include 
VISCII, VNI, VPS, TCVN and UTF-8.
I once created some web page material in VISCII and
tried to view it on an MS browser while visiting Hanoi,
but it ws all garbled. Obviously viscii is not in current
user there.
Here's my web page of collected links to vietnamese
font encodings (to prove that I have tried to find this
stuff myself before asking the list).
http://www.topology.org/soft/alpha.html

I've tried to get the VN fonts going in Netscape 4.77,
Mozilla 0.6, and Star Office 5.2.

If anyone has succeeded in viewing vietnamese-font
websites with a linux browser, I'd very much to know how
you did it.
I'd like to be able to read this, for instance:
http://www.tcvn.gov.vn/

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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