Welcome to the OvniConv project.

====== Presentation ======
This project is about developing some OpenDocumentFormat tools to help converting to TCVN 6909:2001 (Unicode) all files encoded with old Vietnamese encoding, say TCVN 5712:1993, VNI, VPS, and so on.



===== Second try: more proof of concept! =====

  * Mar.2008 :
   * Using a more evolved Python script, now we can convert font names as well!
   * Project available at https://launchpad.net/ovniconv/
   * Sources at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~progfou/ovniconv/trunk/files 
   * It's now version 1.0, ready to be used in command line mode! Debian/Ubuntu package to come anytime soon now! :-)

  * Apr.2008 :
    * Moved Python support for Vietnamese encodings into a separate project
    * Sources available at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~progfou/python-vietnamese/trunk/files
    * Let's make it a proposal for default Python distribution! :-)

  * Debian/Ubuntu packages available at https://launchpad.net/~progfou/+archive
  * and also as Gutsy contrib in the [[others:HanoiLUG]] [[soft:apt]] repository



====== Experimentation ======



===== First try: proof of concept! =====

  * open an old TCVN encoded MS-Office .DOC file using OOo:

  ooffice test-tcvn.doc

  * save the file in .ODT format, then quit OOo
  * use unzip to extract the .ODT content.xml file

  unzip test.odt content.xml

  * recode content.xml from UTF-8 to WINDOWS-1252

  iconv --from=UTF-8 --to=WINDOWS-1252 < content.xml > content-tcvn.xml

  * recode content.xml from TCVN-5712 to UTF-8

  iconv --from=TCVN-5712 --to=UTF-8 < content-tcvn.xml > content.xml

  * use zip to put back content.xml in the .ODT file

  zip test.odt content.xml

  * open the .ODT file using OOo

  ooffice test.odt

  * It's all Unicode encoded! (but fonts are still declared as .vn* ones)
  * Note that there still is some issue with some special characters (like double-quote) which are loosely replaced with Vietnamese accentuated characters. This is because we are doing a global raw string conversion, converting also strings using fonts other than .vn*. The final tool would have to take care of converting only those strings associated with some .vn* font.
  * Test file used: {{projects:test-tcvn.doc|test-tcvn.doc}}

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