Vietnamese Language Support Services Menu Convert Encoding from Unicode-VNI

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Vietnamese Language Support Services Menu Convert Encoding from Unicode-VNI

I am running :

Macbook 13 unibody
Clean install Snow Leopard
I have Vietnamese input method in Languages and Input Method Systems Preferences on

Problem :

When I was running Leopard, I somehow was able to see in the Services Menu "convert from unicode to vni," and other encodings, and vice versa while working in TextEdit, MS Word, and other applications that supported it.

After doing a new and clean install on my machine. I am no longer able to see these options in the Services Menu, nor am I able to even find where and how to enable this in Systems Preferences.

Please HELP HELP HELP it was an absolute life saver for me to work with all the different encodings and input methods for Vietnamese language.

macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 28, 2009 11:15 PM

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Answer 1

K T

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Oct 28, 2009 11:44 PM in response to knjcnj

Services are changed...

Go to System Preferences/Language & Text and see if the options you need are available there...

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knjcnj Author

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Oct 29, 2009 1:49 AM in response to K T

No, I have all the settings in Systems Preferences/Language & Text enabled for Vietnamese. I've enabled all the Vietnamese Input Methods that are available.

Under System Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts
Under Services/Text

for some reason there are checkboxes for convert Chinese from Traditional to Simplified etc
but no options for converting Vietnamese encodings

HELP

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 29, 2009 6:23 AM in response to knjcnj

no options for converting Vietnamese encodings

I need to double check, but I don't think that has ever been part of OS X, and you probably added it from elsewhere, like here:

http://homepage.mac.com/herr/

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knjcnj Author

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Oct 29, 2009 10:41 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

omg that was it. I had already installed the app from that link but it didn't show up in services because I guess I didn't log out properly for the installation to finish putting the service items on. & since I wasn't able to find the services after installation I assumed it must have been a part of the Leopard. Because you suggested, I installed again, and logged out as I was supposed to, and voila, the Vietnamese encoding conversion items for Services Menu. thanks you.

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