VSCII
| Alias(es) | x-viet-tcvn5712 |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Vietnamese, English |
| Created by | TCVN/TC1 |
| Standard | TCVN 5712:1993 |
| Classification | 8-bit SBCS; Extended ASCII (VSCII-2/-3) |
VSCII (Vietnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange), also known as TCVN 5712, ISO-IR-180, .VN, ABC or simply the TCVN encodings, is a set of three closely related Vietnamese national standard character encodings for using the Vietnamese language with computers, developed by the TCVN Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCVN/TC1) and first adopted in 1993 (as TCVN 5712:1993).
It should not be confused with the similarly-named unofficial VISCII encoding, which was sometimes used by overseas Vietnamese speakers. VISCII was also intended to stand for Vietnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange, but is not related to VSCII.
VSCII (TCVN) was used extensively in the north of Vietnam, while VNI was popular in the south. Unicode and the Windows-1258 code page are now used for virtually all Vietnamese computer data, but legacy files or archived messages may need conversion.