On MS-DOS, she used a Vietnamese text editor called BKED that I wrote about. I visited a photocopy shop one day, and I saw a lady who typed so extraordinarily fast – I don't think I have seen anyone typing as fast as she did since! Instead of using just Windows and MS Office, the typist switched to MS-DOS from time to time. Given the IME program (named ABC, widely used in North Vietnam and in governmental offices) was originally written for Windows 3.1 and the computer has gotten so much faster since working with Vietnamese was already relatively painless. Using the English version of Office with Vietnamese fonts worked well enough for most people. Back then, there was no Unicode, so Vietnamese documents utilize special fonts that have high-ASCII characters replaced by Vietnamese characters. At the time, Vietnam's de-facto word processor was Microsoft Office 95/97 on Windows 95. That's one of the services provided by then-popular photocopy shops (like FedEx print shops here). At the time, there was a profession called 'typist,' whose job was to digitalize handwriting or poorly photocopied books/documents. The first time I heard about the computer being slow was around 1998 when I was a kid in Vietnam. This problem is very much solvable and has been solved many times. Therefore, creating an IME for Vietnamese is a tedious job, but there were no heuristics involved, so it is possible to make a very high-performance IME. There, two es make the ê, s makes the ế, and j makes the ệ. An example would be to get Tiếng Việt, you type Tieengs Vieetj.

TELEX uses the unmodified Latin keyboard to express the hook by certain simple rules. To type Vietnamese, one of the most popular methods (now it has become de-facto) is TELEX. Vietnamese is basically Latin with a couple funny hooks on top of the characters, like this: Tiếng Việt. The stories I heard were not about computers typing English, they were about computers typing Vietnamese. Cool storytimeįirst, a little bit of clarification.

Here is my video summarizing what I found. So the claim was the computer that can do a bazillion operations on your computer can't even process and display text as fast as your hand can type.

I heard it from two different people on two different occasions. One such claim is that the computer/OS being too slow/laggy to type (ordinary documents) on. From time to time, I have the pleasure of hearing a claim so outrageous, it's almost unbelievable.

Vietnamese fonts for word