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A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spell check, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

The releases include the following improvements:

• Check if file on disk is modified by another program

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A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spell check, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

The releases include the following improvements:

• Add program icons
• Incorporate logging

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A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spell check, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

The releases include the following improvements:

* More refactoring
* Add support for inline spellcheck suggestion in context menu
* Update Apple Java Extensions (Java only)

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A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spell check, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

The releases include the following improvements:

* Correct some mnemonics in Edit menu
* Remove unused localized strings
* Unescape newline and tab characters from Replace With text field
* Break up the large Resources file into smaller ones, providing each dialog with its own resource bundle (Java)
* Fine tune VietComparer (.NET)... read more

A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spell check, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

The releases include the following improvements:

* Refactor to conform to Single-Responsibility Principle

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A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spell check, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

The releases include the following improvements:

* Improve accessibility by incorporating keyboard mnemonics

http://vietpad.sf.net

A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spell check, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

The releases include the following improvements:

* Refactor by breaking out into smaller classes
* Add Recent Files submenu
* Add support for Regular Expression in text Find/Replace operations
* Add unit tests

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A full-featured Java Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, save, and spellcheck Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This release includes the following improvements:

* Upgraded to Java 6
* Removed old font configuration files no longer used in Java 6
* Refactored using generics, enumeration, and Java 6 standard API
* Added (combined) Auto input method
* Added more localized data for JFileChooser
* Correctly invoke a localized JFileChooser

A full-featured .NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, spellcheck, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This release includes the following improvements:

* Upgraded to .NET 2.0
* Redesign using .NET 2.0's new controls
* Added NetSpell spell checker with Vietnamese phonetic code rules
* Improved sorting algorithm

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A full-featured .NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This release includes the following improvements:

* More refactoring and various minor improvements

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A full-featured Java Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, save, and spellcheck Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This release includes the following improvements:

* Applied the Jazzy patch which enables the spell checker to start operation from current caret position rather than from beginning of document every time
* Added spellcheck support for foreign languages (dictionary files (.dic) need be copied into .vietpad directory)
* More refactoring
* Added a font configuration file for Java 1.5 on Fedora 7

A full-featured Java/.NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This release includes the following improvements:

* Refactored using Design Patterns to improve code reusability, program extensibility and maintainability

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A full-featured .NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This version includes:

* Fixed a bug with Add Diacritics function, which skipped the first word if the text began with non-alphanumeric characters
* Minor improvements

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A full-featured .NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This version includes the following improvements:

* Added Normalize Diacritics function, which shifts tone marks to proper positions according to rules described in http://www.vietlex.com/vietnamese/quytacbodau.html. Both modern and classic styles are supported
* Fixed a NCR conversion bug
* Fixed bugs with text replace operations
* Enhanced Find/Replace dialog with memory for search words
* Use UTF-8 without byte-order-mark (BOM) ... read more

This release includes minor improvements:

* Corrected a discrepancy in Regular Expression in Java 1.4.2 for Normalize Diacritics operation
* Enhanced Find/Replace dialog with memory for search words

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This release includes several significant enhancements:

* Added Jazzy spell checker (http://jazzy.sourceforge.net/) with Vietnamese phonetic code rules (http://aspell.net/man-html/Phonetic-Code.html#Phonetic%20Code)
* Added Normalize Diacritics function, which shifts tone marks to proper positions according to rules described in http://www.vietlex.com/vietnamese/quytacbodau.html. Both modern and classic styles are supported
* Optimized Unicode conversion operations
* Fixed a NCR Hex conversion bug... read more

An open-source class library, available in both Java JAR and .NET Managed DLL formats, is provided to application developers for integration with their programs to provide Vietnamese text input capability to standard text components. It requires only a few lines of code to incorporate the functionality.

http://vietpad.sourceforge.net/library.html

VietPad v1.1.3

* Fixed a collation bug introduced in version 1.1.2
* Added Unicode conversion support for ISC encoding
* Toolbar on Mac OS X now has a lower edge

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VietPad v1.1.2

* Incorporated Java 1.5.0's Locale vi features (collation, date/time format, etc.)
* Allowed shorthand to be enabled while Viet Mode is off
* Improved VISCII, VPS, UTF-8, and VIQR conversion
* Worked around a bug with file DnD on Linux
* Lined up scroll bars and grow box on Mac OS X
* Made the Keyboard Mode label clickable
* Worked around an obscure bug which incorrectly alters Đ and đ letters to D and d during Unicode Compound conversion. The bug only appears on certain Windows systems.... read more

A full-featured .NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This version includes the following improvements:

- Added the ability to add diacritical marks to unmarked Vietnamese text. This feature uses a user-modifiable list (originally from http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/software/\) containing common Vietnamese words and phrases
- Enhanced Find/Replace dialog, adding a Match Diacritics option
- Improved UTF-8-to-Unicode conversion
- Added Vietnamese date/time format
- Minor bug fixes... read more

A full-featured .NET Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This version includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

- Localized VietPad.NET
- Fixed a minor keyboard engine bug related to entry of and letters in Telex mode
- Added support for left-to-right sorting
- Fixed focus problems when closing dialogs... read more

A full-featured Java cross-platform Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, print, convert, sort, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This version includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

- Added font.properties support for Linux
- Replaced Vietnamese collation rules with a more concise form
- Fixed a minor keyboard engine bug related to entry of and letters in Telex mode
- Worked around an obscure bug which erroneously converts D with stroke and d with stroke letters to D and d (instead of to DD and dd), respectively, during Unicode conversion to VIQR. The bug only appears on certain Windows systems
- Changed Vietnamese translations from title case to sentence case
- Enhanced Help panel
- Replaced Java 1.5 deprecated methods
- Worked around a Java bug on OS X... read more

A full-featured Java cross-platform Vietnamese Unicode Text Editor. Open, edit, convert, print, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode formats.

This version includes many improvements, including:

- Full Vietnamese localization
- Refined sorting algorithm for Vietnamese string comparison to be consistent with specifications listed in http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/charset/quytacABC_en.html
- Added support for left-to-right sorting... read more

Version 1.0.9 with Vietnamese localization is just released. The program, which requires Java 2 Runtim Environment 1.4, can run on Windows, Solaris, Linux/Unix, and Mac OS X.

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- Added the ability to add diacritical marks to unmarked Vietnamese text. This feature uses a user-modifiable list (originally from http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/software/\) containing common Vietnamese words and phrases
- Enhanced Find/Replace operations to accept un-accented search words for accented words
- Fixed a bug with Match Whole Word option in Find/Replace dialog. The bug resulted in an endless loop, hanging the application
- Added anti-aliasing for rendering fonts with point size greater than 18... read more