Features
UniKey is a very small and easy-to-use Vietnamese keyboard for Windows.UniKey is free and open-source. You can freely use UniKey under the terms of The GNU General Public License.
See screenshots of UniKey.
UniKey supports:
- Many character sets/encodings:
- TCVN3 (ABC), VN Unicode, VIQR
- VNI, VPS, VISCII
- BK HCM1, BK HCM2, Vietware-X, Vietware-F.
- Unicode UTF-8, Unicode NCR Decimal/Hexadecimal - for Web editors.
- All 3 popular input methods: TELEX, VNI and VIQR.
- All Win32 platforms: Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP.
- UniKey is very small (~ 120 KB), does not need any additional library.
- No installation is required.
News
- March 1, 2012: Official announcement from Pham Kim Long
- During February 2012, unikey.org had been modified by hackers. They changed the links for downloading unikey programs to a fake project in sourceforge.net. The fake programs contain trojan viruses as reported here and in several security communities (HVA, CMC InfoSec). We have restored unikey.org, and now all the links correctly point to our programs in http://sf.net/projects/unikey.
- For those who downloaded from unikey.org between Jan. 31 - 2012 and Feb. 29 - 2012, please remove them, and scan your computers using up-to-date anti virus programs. You can now safely download unikey programs from unikey.org.
- unikey.org is the only official site for UniKey Vietnamese Input Method. I am not responsible for any other web sites in the name of UniKey.
- Official UniKey programs are hosted at SourceForge at the address http://sf.net/projects/unikey. You can verify the programs you have using MD5 and SHA1 checksums from here.
- Aug. 28. 2009: UniKey 4.0 Release Candidate 2 available, with key improvements:
- Supports Internet Explorer in Proteced mode
- Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit applications in 64-bit Windows (Vista, Windows 7)
- 64-bit UniKey runs natively in 64-bit Windows
- Apr. 19, 2006: UniKey 4.0 Release Candidate available for download.
- Apr. 13, 2006: x-unikey 1.0.4 released.
- Dec. 28, 2005: UniKey 4.0 Beta released. This new version includes
many changes and improvements, both in Vietnamese processing engine and user interface.
All results in better Vietnamese typing experience.
- Enables smart typing and spell checks
- Allows users to define their own input method
- User interface now follows Windows XP's look and feel style
- And much more...
- Dec. 1, 2005: Update release x-unikey 1.0.3b:
Fixed some bugs that cause x-unikey to crash when macro is enabled. - Oct. 1, 2005:
- Update release: UniKey 3.63
- Update release: x-unikey 1.0.3
Older news
- Mar. 14, 2006: UniKey 4.0 Beta 3 released.
- Jan. 17, 2006:
UniKey 4.0 Beta 2 released.
This release includes many bug fixes and improvements in spell-checking and auto-restoring key strokes. - Jul. 23, 2005:
- Update for x-unikey: released x-unikey 1.0.1 with some bug fixes
- Released source code for UniKey 3.62
- Jul. 16, 2005: New x-unikey version 1.0 released. Completely rewritten engine enables many smart typing features.
Download x-unikey 1.0 here. - Jul. 14, 2005: New release UniKey 3.62. Fixed some bugs. UniKey now comes with an installer.
- Jul. 25, 2004: Updated UVConverter, version 1.1.3b with support for ISC VNI-MAC used in Mac OS, thanks to Gero Herrmann
- Apr. 8, 2004: UniKey 3.6 released.
After one year of testing, development version 3.55 has become stable enough to be officially released with new version number, 3.6. This version comes with lots of bug fixes and some new features for handling macros. Get it in the Download section - Mar. 16, 2004:UVConverter has been ported to Mac OS X by Gero Herrmann.
- Feb. 6, 2004: X-Unikey, unikey for Linux, is finally released
See Linux Page. - Jan. 29, 2003: Bug fixes for
UniKey 3.55.
UniKey 3.55 already has the highly demanded support for Rich Text Format conversion. - Aug. 20, 2002: Released UVConverter 1.1.2
- June 20, 2001: UniKey 3.1 available with OPEN SOURCE under The GNU General Public License.