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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Method 1: VN 2 and Vtopia
3. Method 2: Vietnamese and Vietscript

Introduction

There are two ways to enter (and print) text in Vietnamese. Either method works in all applications on all Macintoshes (except SEs) and printers in the primary CIRCA labs (Arch 131, Bryan 232, CSE 211, Weil 408). This handout describes the use of these methods.

Method 1: VN 2 and Vtopia

This is the preferred method. It uses a special keyboard layout (VN 2) and a special TrueTypeª font (Vtopia). First, you use the keyboard control panel to select the VN 2 layout, then you select the Vtopia font in the application you are using.


Pull down the _ menu and select Control Panels. Open the Keyboard control panel. Select the VN 2 keyboard layout. You don't need to close the keyboard control panel. You can leave it open and drag it to some convenient screen location for easy switching between the U.S. and Vietnamese keyboard layouts.





The VN 2 keyboard layout is a modified QWERTY keyboard layout that accommodates the Vietnamese alphabet and tone marks, as follows:


U.S.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	[	]
VN 2	®	©	ª	Æ	_	±	2	3	¥	´	_	¨
VN 2 shift	°	¢	£	ß	¿	¡	¬	Ã	Ä	§	¶	ï
VN 2 option	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	[	]
VN 2 shift option	!	@	#	$	%	^	&	*	(	)	{	}

To enter the Vietnamese characters with a tone mark, first type the tone mark, followed by the vowel. Some applications might not accept certain character codes, but might accept characters with double diacritics if typed in this order: First vowel, then tone mark, then space.

Method 2: Vietnamese/Vietscript

This method uses special bitmapped fonts. It might not always print what you expect, however. In the application you are using, select either the vietnamese or Vietscript font.


If you type:	You should get:
F or f	F or f
J or j	J or j
W or w	W or w
Z or z	Z or z
option A or a	Å or å
option O or o	Ø or ø
option P or p	_ or 1
option F or f	F or f
option J or j	J or j
option W or w	W or w
option z	z

There are two ways to enter tones -- one that should work best with System 7 or laser printers and one that should work well with System 6 or dot matrix printers.


Dot Matrix: You type the vowel over which the tone is to appear, then press and hold the option key while you type the tone number. Below are the tones and corresponding numbers illustrated with the syllable "ma."


dz/u så/c	option 1 (ma/)
dz/u huyw¤n	option 2 (ma¤)
dz/u ngaÐ	option 3 (maÐ)
dz/u nå_ng	option 4 (ma_)
dz/u hoÞi	option 5 (maÞ)

Laser Printer:


dz/u så/c	shiÄt option 1 (ma/)
dz/u huyw¤n	shiÄt option 2 (ma¤)
dz/u ngaÐ	shiÄt option 3 (maÐ)
dz/u nå_ng	shiÄt option 6 (ma_)
dz/u hoÞi	shiÄt option 5 (maÞ)

Notes: Vtopia uses the Vietnamese national standard TCVN 5712:1993 (VSCII). The keyboard layout for VN 2 corresponds to one of the proposals for the Vietnamese national standard keyboard.


You can copy all of the fonts and the keyboard layout mentioned in this handout from the PANDA file server in the CIRCA II zone, the Panda volume, in the PUB:MAC:Foreign Language:Vietnamese: folder. See the handout, "Macintosh Shareware," for instructions on how to use the PANDA file server from a Macintosh in a CIRCA lab (or on UFNET).