UnicodeConverter Change Summary
Windows version

    19 April 2005 - UnicodeConverter v1.2

• Added support for conversion of Unicode Composite (NFD) and NCR (windows-1252, iso-8859-1)
• Added file Drag-and-Drop support
• Localized user interface

    21 August 2004 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.9

• Added support for conversion of Excel workbooks
• Improved, faster Word conversion
• Corrected invalid characters in URLs as a result of converting VIQR text to Unicode

    10 March 2003 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.8

• Added support for conversion of Rich Text Format files

    20 December 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.7

• Added support for conversion of Word documents via JACOB, an open-source JAVA-COM Bridge (http://danadler.com/jacob)

    8 December 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.6

• Fixed broken TCVN3 and VNI conversion on systems with default encodings different from Windows Latin 1
• Source encoding, file filter, and working directory are remembered
• Added support for 'D-' and 'd-' in VIQR encoding
• Fixed treatment of VPS Hoa font names
• Improved exception handling

    14 August 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.5b

• Fixed the Status Panel so that it could automatically scroll to the bottom of the list
• Minor improvements

    7 June 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.5a

• Fixed a bug involved with TCVN font names

    23 April 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.5

• Improved VIQR conversion

    20 December 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.4a

• Expanded support for Numeric Character References (NCR) for characters from \x00A0 to \x00FF, applicable to VPS and VISCII only

    16 October 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.4

• 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
• Added a status panel showing names of files successfully converted
• Version number upped to match that of the Java counterpart

    25 July 2001 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.0

• First public release
• Included support for VNI, VPS, VISCII, VIQR/Vietnet, and TCVN3 (ABC)
• Ported to Windows

    26 January - UnicodeConverter v0.5.0

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