VietPad.NET Change Summary

    28 March 2008 - VietPad.NET v2.0

• Upgraded to .NET 2.0
• Redesign using .NET 2.0's new controls
• Added NetSpell spell checker with Vietnamese phonetic code rules
• Improved sorting algorithm (the result is still slightly off due to errors with Vietnamese collation in Windows)

    26 June 2007 - VietPad.NET v1.2.1

• More refactoring and various minor improvements

    22 November 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.2

• Refactored using Design Patterns to improve code reusability, program extensibility and maintainability
• Changed the letter case of namespaces and methods to following the naming convention as described in .NET Framework Naming Guidelines

     22 July 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.1.1

• Fixed a bug with Add Diacritics function, which skipped the first word if the text began with non-alphanumeric characters
• Minor improvements

     12 July 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.1

• Added Normalize Diacritics function, which shifts tone marks to proper positions according to rules described in http://www.vietlex.com/vietnamese/quytacbodau.html. Both modern and classic styles are supported
• Fixed a NCR conversion bug
• Fixed bugs with text replace operations
• Enhanced Find/Replace dialog with memory for search words
• Use UTF-8 without byte-order-mark (BOM)

     8 October 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.4

• Improved VISCII, VPS, UTF-8, and VIQR conversion
• Added support for conversion of Unicode Composite (Decomposed or NFD)
• Made the Keyboard Mode label clickable

     18 June 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.3

• Added the ability to add diacritical marks to unmarked Vietnamese text. This feature uses a user-modifiable list (originally from http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/software/) containing common Vietnamese words and phrases
• Enhanced Find/Replace dialog, adding a Match Diacritics option
• Improved UTF-8-to-Unicode conversion
• Added Vietnamese date/time format

     1 May 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.2

• Localized VietPad.NET
• Fixed a minor keyboard engine bug related to entry of  and Ô letters in Telex mode
• Added support for left-to-right sorting
• Fixed focus problems when closing dialogs

    22 August 2003 - VietPad.NET v1.0.1

• Optimized input engine performance:
  • added diacritical mark removal mechanism
  • more efficient key input processing
• Added Vietnamese word sorting
• Added context menu
• Added change case
• Added join paragraphs (removing line breaks)
• Added shorthand
• Added preferences
• Improved Find/Replace function

    24 January 2003 - VietPad.NET v1.0

• Incorporated Vietnamese input engine with IntelliMark capability which enables entering diacritical marks at word ends, besides the tradition method
• Added Unicode conversion support for Vietnamese legacy, Numeric Character References (NCR), and UTF-8 formats
• Added support for ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16 file encoding
• Adapted and extended NotepadClone © 2001 by Charles Petzold, author of Programming Microsoft Windows with C#