Yahoo Messenger integrates Vietnamese typing

Yahoo is upgrading services, especially Yahoo Messenger (IM) multimedia messaging, with support for Vietnamese-style avatars and Vietnamese input.

Yahoo Messenger is the most popular instant messenger in Vietnam with a large number of users. Today, Yahoo has quietly "integrated" a set of add-ons that support Vietnamese users with accented Vietnamese typing.

According to Tuoi Tre Online 's private source, this percussion is Yahoo! buy the rights to use the source code from the AVIM keyboard of Dang Tran Hieu and develop further with the name Viet Ky. Reason Yahoo! Attention to AVIM is due to this percussion compatibility and its popularity with the current online user community in Vietnam.

To use this keyboard when chatting, click on the " Plug-ins " button on the chat menu of the chat window. On the right side of the Plug-ins, select " Viet Ky " in the " My Plug-ins " section and click Start to activate the input method. After activating, the chat friend will receive a notification inviting to accept Viet Ky keyboard, by clicking Accept .

Once approved, a new card called Viet Ky will appear in the Plugin box and in this tab, users can type Vietnamese with accents according to the Telex and VNI input methods. Type the content and press Enter or click the " Submit " button.

The addition of this Vietnamese percussion is very useful for Internet users in Vietnam who are accustomed to typing Vietnamese without accent, so the words used sometimes occur in many cases "bad jokes and jokes" because of misunderstanding the content . Now, chatter can use Vietnamese percussion accents every day as a useful practice.

AVIM keyboard

The author is a Vietnamese student who is currently studying in the UK with a familiar name for the Vietnamese IT community, Dang Tran Hieu. According to the author, AVIM or Advanced Vietnamese Input Method, is developed in Javascript language, can easily integrate AVIM into websites, forums. AVIM can work well with IFRAME, so it will work with web-based WYSIWYG keyboards (the editor integrated on other web, forum, blog .) written in Javascript or using AJAX technology .

AVIM is the first percussion compatible with FireFox and Internet Explorer at the time of release. AVIM's strengths are compatibility. Until now, AVIM version 20070509 works on many browsers such as Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror . and similar to the browser, AVIM runs "well" on most systems. operating Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS . Currently, the number of websites and forums in Vietnam uses very popular AVIM such as HVA, DDTH, HN-AMS, Wikipedia Vietnam, VN UNITED .

" I use AVIM because it can be easily integrated with vBulletin forums, phpBB or Invision Board are quite good. Support for both FireFox and Internet Explorer, " a webmaster shared. FireFox users can download the AVIM plugin to attach the keyboard to their FireFox browser here. AVIM keyboard version 20070509 is provided by the author completely free of charge.

Thanh Truc