UnicodeConverter Change Summary
Java Version

    15 November 2014 - UnicodeConverter v2.1

• Refactored and added documentation
• Added progressbar
• Added support for docx/xlsx formats
• Added support for PowerPoint presentations
• Added unit tests
• Improved keyboard accessibility
• Updated JACOB library to version 1.18-M2 (dropped support for XP)

    8 August 2009 - UnicodeConverter v2.0

• Upgraded to Java 6
• Refactored using generics and SwingWorker
• Revamped localization code
• Updated JACOB library to version 1.9.1
• Fixed a bug with releasing Excel COM object

    14 November 2005 - UnicodeConverter v1.3

• Refactored using Design Patterns to improve code reusability, program extensibility and maintainability
• Updated JACOB library to version 1.9.1

    27 May 2005 - UnicodeConverter v1.2

• Added support for Unicode Composite (NFD), ISC, and NCR (windows-1252, iso-8859-1) encodings
• Added file Drag-and-Drop support
• Localized user interface
• Optimized conversion module
• Updated JACOB package to version 1.9 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jacob-project)

    21 August 2004 - UnicodeConverter v1.1

• Added support for conversion of Excel workbooks
• Improved VIQR conversion
• Improved, faster Word conversion
• Upgraded to Java 1.4 features

    12 October 2003 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.9

• Improved conversion speed
• Corrected invalid characters in URLs as a result of converting VIQR text to Unicode
• Worked around a bug in Mac OS X's Java 1.4.1 Update 1 that crashes UnicodeConverter, which works in earlier versions of 1.4.1

    2 August 2003 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.8a

• Updated jacob.dll file. Sun's implementation of JNI Get<Type>ArrayElements() function was changed between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 (Bug ID: 4834329), which caused UnicodeConverter to fail on Word document conversion in JRE 1.4.2

   10 March 2003 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.8

• Added support for conversion of Rich Text Format files

    7 December 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.7

• Fixed broken TCVN3 and VNI conversion on systems with default encodings different from Windows Latin 1
• Better integration under Mac OS X
• Source encoding, working directory, file filter, check box state, and window positions are remembered
• Command line works with relative paths for output files
• Added support for 'D-' and 'd-' in VIQR encoding
• Conversion of entire directories with "All Files" chosen works
• Fixed treatment of VPS Hoa font names
• Utilized Ant build tool (http://ant.apache.org)

    18 October 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.6

• Added support for conversion of Word documents via JACOB, an open-source JAVA-COM Bridge (http://danadler.com/jacob)
• Fixed a Unicode bug related to Variant(string) type in JACOB JNI implementation

    7 June 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.5a

• Fixed a bug involved with TCVN3 font names

    18 April 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.5

• Improved default browser launching
• Improved VIQR conversion

    20 December 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.4a

• Shortened the program filename from UnicodeConverter.jar to Uni.jar to allow for easier entry at command line
• Expanded support for Numeric Character References (NCR) for characters from \x00A0 to \x00FF, applicable to VPS and VISCII only

    15 October 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.4

• Integrated command-line capability to the program
• Added support for "*" character for VIQR encoding
• Added support for Numeric Character References (NCR) for characters from \x0080 to \x009F, applicable to VPS and VISCII only
• Added support for charset=x-user-defined

    22 August 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.3

• Added suppport for converting an entire directory, including its subdirectories. This expanded capability allows conversion of an entire website to Unicode UTF-8
• Fixed a bug with displaying in Linux/Unix environment
• Added a status panel showing names of files successfully converted

    18 June 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.2

• Set HTML Files as the default file filter
• Added support for charset=us-ascii

    17 May 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.1

• Added support for TCVN3 (ABC) encoding

    20 April 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.0

• First public release
• Included support for VNI, VPS, VISCII, and VIQR/Vietnet
• Added graphics user interface (GUI)

    26 January 2001 - UnicodeConverter v0.5.0

• Designed core conversion algorithm in Java
• Completed the command-line executable function