VISCII
| MIME / IANA | VISCII |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Vietnamese, English |
| Created by | Viet-Std Group |
| Definitions | RFC 1456 |
| Classification | 8-bit SBCS |
| Based on | ASCII |
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.