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Unofficial character encoding for the Vietnamese alphabet

VISCII is an unofficially defined modified ASCII character encoding for using the Vietnamese language with computers. It should not be confused with the similarly named officially registered VSCII encoding. VISCII keeps the 95 printable characters of ASCII unmodified, but it replaces 6 of the 33 control characters with printable characters. It adds 128 precomposed characters. Unicode and the Windows-1258 code page are now used for virtually all Vietnamese computer data, but legacy VSCII and VISCII files may need conversion. Wikipedia →

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