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.

• 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 HanoiLUG apt repository

• 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: test-tcvn.doc

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