UniKey (software)

This article is about the Vietnamese keyboarding software. For the United States home security company, see UniKey.
UniKey

UniKey 4.0 RC2 settings dialog
Developer(s) Phạm Kim Long
Initial release 2000 (2000)[1]
Stable release 3.63 / 30 September 2005 (2005-09-30)
Preview release 4.2 RC4 / 23 August 2014 (2014-08-23)
Development status active
Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Size 197.7 kB
Available in English, Vietnamese[2]
Type Input method editor
License GNU General Public License
Website unikey.org

UniKey is an open-source Vietnamese input method editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Phạm Kim Long. As of 2014, it is the most popular input method editor for Vietnamese.[1] The official Linux port of UniKey is known as X-UniKey.

Features

UniKey supports the three most common Vietnamese input methods: Telex, VNI, and VIQR. Due to the fragmented state of Vietnamese computing during the 1990s, UniKey supports as many as 14 Vietnamese character encodings, including TCVN3, VNI, Unicode, VIQR, VPS, VISCII, and Windows-1258.[2]

History

Long began developing the software privately in 1994 as TVNBK, short for Tiếng Việt Nam Bách Khoa, after Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Trường Đại học Bách khoa Hà Nội), where he was studying. TVNBK was originally written in assembly language for DOS systems. In the mid-1990s, he ported it to Windows NT 4.0, renaming it LittleVnKey. In 2000, he released the software publicly for the first time as UniKey and placed it under the GNU General Public License. Recent versions of the software and its source code are hosted on SourceForge.[1] Long has also developed Laban Key, a popular Vietnamese input method editor for Android and iOS devices that debuted in 2013.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Huy An (25 March 2014). "Bộ gõ tiếng Việt phổ biến nhất đã ra đời thế nào?" [How did the most popular Vietnamese input method editor come about?]. VnEconomy (in Vietnamese) (Vietnam Economic Times). Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Hướng dẫn sử dụng UniKey 3.5" [UniKey 3.5 User Guide]. UniKey (in Vietnamese). April 2004. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Huy An (26 March 2014). "'Trận chiến' mới của cha đẻ Unikey" [A new "battle" for the father of Unikey]. VnEconomy (in Vietnamese) (Vietnam Economic Times). Retrieved 30 March 2015.

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