VNLabs
VNLabs or VN Labs is a software company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in input methods for various languages.
History
VN Labs was founded in 1984 by Viet Nguyen, an engineer at
Teledyne, in Newport Beach, California. The previous year, as a side project, he had created an PC-compatible input method for the Vietnamese alphabet to improve the usability of his friend's astrology program. Nguyen began marketing his software to Little Saigon's many Vietnamese-language newspapers and magazines. In 1986, Người Việt Daily News adopted the input method, now named Diplomat, so that staffers would not have to mark up entire issues with diacritical marks by hand. By 1987, Nguyen left Teledyne to focus on VN Labs full-time.[1][2]
Unlike its competitor
Macintosh and the Unicode
encoding standard.
Products
The Diplomat Software Series is a collection of 23 software packages. Each package supports a single language. The
Macintosh operating systems include an input method and various Unicode fonts
.
References
- ^ LaGanga, Maria L. (June 16, 1989). "Typing in Tongues". Los Angeles Times. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com. [1]
- ^ a b Takahashi, Dean (February 22, 1993). "Keeping Vietnam Language Alive Via Computer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ Mendelson, Edward (June 13, 1989). "Soft Fonts: Less Pain, More Gain". PC Magazine. Vol. 8, no. 11. New York City: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. p. 240 – via Google Books.
External links
- VNLabs official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-09-13)