Vietnamese Fonts
Vietnamese fonts and characters for your computer.
For those interested in using Vietnamese fonts you can get many of the Vietnamese characters on your computer with ASCII or Word. Also, Vietnamese fonts can be downloaded for installation on your computer at The Vietnamese Professional Society web site http://www.vps.org
The extended ascii character set for any font it can be found in "Character Map" in Windows. For example, if you hold down your alt key and press the number sequence of 0226 (alt+0226) with the letter a, then you will get the â character.
| To Type | Press | Html Code |
| à, è, ì, ò, ù | CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter | à |
| á, é, í, ó, ú, ý | CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter | á |
| â, ê, î, ô, û | CTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter | â |
| ã, ñ, õ | CTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter | ã |
| ð, Ð | CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), d or D | ð |
You can find instructions in Help index within the MS Word's Menu Bar.
Vietnamese Unicode
| Vietnamese Character | 16-bit Unicode | UTF-8 Bytes |
| Ồ | U+1ED2 | E1 BB 92: á»’ |
| ồ | U+1ED3 | E1 BB 93: ồ |
| Ờ | U+1EDC | E1 BB 9C: Ờ |
| ơ | U+01A1 | C6 A1: Æ¡ |
| ư | U+01B0 | C6 B0: Æ° |
| ứ | U+1EE9 | E1 BB A9: ứ |
Learn more at the Vietnamese Unicode FAQ.
Thanks to Hanh Tran, Kelly Gosbee and Robin Brodeur for their suggestions on the APV list.
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