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Multilingual Support of WinVNKey
A.
Introduction
B. Download WinVNKey & Type Vietnamese
C. Type other languages
D. Type Han Nom
E. Last word
A. Introduction
For typing
Vietnamese on the computer, we have many keyboard drivers available, for
example: WinVNKey, UniKey,
VPSKeys, GoTiengViet, Vietkey, etc .... But if we
need to type a few letters of a foreign language in a document, for
example: French, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Norwegian, etc.
..., then we can only use WinVNKey. The other
Vietnamese keyboards do not support this functionality.
The focus of this article is to explain how to use WinVNKey
to type more than 30 languages. Besides, there are other short instructions
on how to download WinVNKey, and how to type
Vietnamese and Han-Nom.
B. Download WinVNKey & Type
Vietnamese
WinVNKey is free. From the WinVNKey
home page http://winvnkey.sf.net, click "Download" to choose the
latest version.
Those users who are not familiar with Vietnamese keyboard can read the
basic tutorial “Download WinVNKey &
Type Vietnamese” for instructions on how to download and type
Vietnamese. Please see the following link: http://winvnkey.sourceforge.net/download-winvnkey-and-type-vietnamese.htm
.
This article shows:
- How to download, install and start WinVNKey.
- How to type Vietnamese using different typing methods: VIQR, VNI, Telex,
Microsoft, etc.
C. Type other national languages
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What languages?
It is easy to type more than 30 languages (alphabetically):
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Albanian (Albania)
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Austrian (Austria)
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Belgian (Belgium)
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Canadian (Canada)
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Croatian (Croatia)
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Czech (Czech Republic - Czechia)
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Danish ( Denmark)
-
Estorian
(Estoria)
-
Finnish ( Finland)
-
French ( France)
-
German (Germany)
-
Hiragana (Japanese phonetic lettering
system)
-
Hungarian (Hungary)
-
Irish (Iceland)
-
Italian (Italy)
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Katakana (Japanese syllabary)
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Latvian (language of Lavia)
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Lithuanian (Lithuania)
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Dutch (Holland / Netherlands)
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Norwegian (Norway)
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Pali
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Pinyin (Latin based Mandarin)
-
Polish (Poland)
-
Portuguese (Portugal)
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Romanian (Romania)
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Russian (Russia)
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Slovakian (Slovakia)
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Slovenian (Slovenia)
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Spanish (Spain)
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Swedish (Sweden)
-
Turkish (Turkey)
• How to type other languages ?
To type other
languages, we just do a few steps:
a)
Start WinVNKey
b)
Click the "Languages" tab
c)
The "Languages" page shows two
panels. The left panel shows a scroll
list of 31 languages. Tick the language that we want. This will cause the
right panel to display a table where the first column shows the characters
to type and the second column shows the resulting
characters of the selected language.
Example: Tick the language
"German", a table showing how to type in keyboard to have the
text of "German" will be as follows:
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a% → ä
-
A% → Ä
-
b|3 → ß
-
o% → ö
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O% → Ö
-
u% → ü
-
U% → Ü
d)
Click "OK" button so the
choice become effective
e)
Right click inside the left and the right
panels to see more options
f)
To edit any language file, highlight
or tick the file and click "Edit File" button below to display an
"Edit Language" dialog.
D. Type Han Nom
For typing Han Nom, we must download the version that supports Han Nom from
the WinVNKey home page.
Instructions in the "Articles about the function of typing Han Nom by
WinVNKey" (written in Vietnamese only) is a summary to help
the beginners in typing Han Nom by WinVNKey first
time or for users wanting to understand more thoroughly the methods of
typing Han Nom. Please see the instructions at the following URL:
http://winvnkey.sf.net/han-nom/index.htm
E. Last
word
WinVNKey is not only multilingual but also rich
in advanced features. To understand the other various functions, please see
the article "Understanding
the special functions of WinVNKey”at: http://winvnkey.sourceforge.net/understanding-the-special-functions-of-winvnkey.htm
MS Word GUI is more complicated than Notepad because the former offers more
capabilities. Similarly, WinVNKey GUI is more
complex than Unikey or VPSKey
because WinVNKey is rich in advanced features and
is fully customizable. That is a price to pay for more functionalities.
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