#MICROSOFT VIETNAMESE KEYBOARD LAYOUT HOW TO#
#MICROSOFT VIETNAMESE KEYBOARD LAYOUT INSTALL#

#MICROSOFT VIETNAMESE KEYBOARD LAYOUT HOW TO#

Type diacritics (or accent marks): DiacriticsĪnd there you go! Congratulation on having learned how to type Vietnamese. The Telex and Vni conventions for typing the 5 diacritics are summarised in the following table: For exaple, to get ư, your typing sequence is “uw”.

Telex: type the underlying letter + w.

These first 2 letters share the “horn” the last one is not quite the same but is close enough, at least according to the Telex way of typing. For example, to get â, your typing sequence is “aa”.

Telex: Type the underlying letter twice.

Type Vietnamese using Telex Typing â, ê, ôĪs you can observe, these 3 letters all have the circumflex.

To practice typing Vietnamese online using Telex or Vni typing methods, as you’d be shown below, you can use this no-frill Vietnamese typepad or using the typepad on this site. Please refer to the Notes (*) below for more details on the various Vietnamese typing software. Once that piece of software has been properly installed and the mode to type Vietnamese is selected, you’ll get â whenever you type the sequence “aa”.

#MICROSOFT VIETNAMESE KEYBOARD LAYOUT INSTALL#

This is because by default, your computer has yet to support Vietnamese typing, which means that you need to either install a software or enable Vietnamese typing if it’s already shipped with your Operating System (for example, on Mac and Gnu/Linux). Please go ahead and try typing aa on your favorite text editor to see what you get. In the Telex Convention, for example, you’ll type the sequence “aa” (two a’s) to get â. Once you have learned the 2 conventions, you can decide on your favorite convention. There is absolutely no advantage or disadvantage of Telex over Vni when it comes to support: it’s 99% correct to say that whenever Telex is supported, Vni is also supported and vice versa. The main difference between these two conventions is that Telex uses letters (a-z) while Vni uses numbers (0-9) to express the accent marks and the marks on top of the vowels (i.e., to type ă, â, ê, ô, ơ, ư) Nowadays, two of the most widely used conventions are the Telex and the Vni. In order to type those “foreign” symbols using the standard English keyboard, there are many different typing conventions, or formally “input methods”. The 5 accent marksĪcute accent(“´”), grave(“`”), hook(” ̉ “), tilde(“~”) and dot(“.”)Īfter a closer look, you would probably agree that what you need to know how to type are just ă, â, ê, ô, ơ, ư and the 5 diacritics.

Microsoft vietnamese keyboard layout