Tiếng Việt

Vietnamese Multilingual Keyboard Driver for Windows

 

We are proud to announce the latest release of WinVNKey for Windows NT/2K/XP/2003 platforms:

                     WinVNKey 5.4.446 (version 5.4, build 446)  - March 6, 2008

Previously Han/Nom support was bundled in every release of WinVNKey.  Recently WinVNKey has received large Han/Nom databases, courtesy of Mr. Thanh Son Le and Kiet The Dang. They not only dramatically enhance Han/Nom typing capability but also greatly increase the package size.  To better serve individual users with different typing needs, WinVNKey is now released in six packages:

  1. wvnkey5.4.446-winnt-with-HanNom.exe  (7.5 MB)

  2. wvnkey5.4.446-winnt-with-HanNom.zip  (5.8 MB)

  3. wvnkey5.4.446-winnt-with-HanNom.rar  (5.0 MB)

  4. wvnkey5.4.446-winnt-without-HanNom.exe (2.4 MB)

  5. wvnkey5.4.446-winnt-without-HanNom.zip (1.5 MB)

  6. wvnkey5.4.446-winnt-without-HanNom.rar (1.2 MB)

Packages 1, 2, and 3 have additional support for typing Han/Nom characters but packages 4, 5, and 6 do not.  You need to download one package only.  Normally, you should download an exe package because it supports automatic installation.  However, the automatic installation sometimes fails on certain Windows XP computers.  In this case you can download the corresponding zip or rar package, unzip it, and click on the file winvnkey.exe to run. The rar package is similar to the zip package but its size is just smaller. For example, package 6 can fit easily on a floppy.

Once installation is complete, you can run WinVNKey and browse to the installation directory:

       WinVNKey | Run | Open folder | WinVNKey Install Folder

This will bring up Windows Explorer with the right panel showing the installation directory.  If you install package 1 or 2 or 3, you will see a HanNom folder, which contains all Han/Nom databases and subfolders.  If you install package 4 or 5 or 6, you will not see a HanNom folder.  That's the only difference between packages 1/2/3 and 4/5/6.

If you install package 4/5/6 and later want Han/Nom support, all you need to do is copy the entire HanNom folder from another installation that has Han/Nom support (i.e., copy from another computer).  Or you can download package 1/2/3 and install on top of the current installation.

 

Support for Windows Vista

This version does not fully supports Windows Vista. For the time being you can get WinVNKey running by one of the following methods:
Preliminary testing showed that Vietnamese typing is working in Office 2003 and IE7, not working in Notepad and Wordpad. Han/Nom typing appears to work in Office.