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Change Summary:

14 November 2005 - UnicodeConverter v1.3 Java & .NET versions

  • Refactored using Design Patterns to improve code reusability, program extensibility and maintainability
  • Updated JACOB library to version 1.9.1 (Java only)
  • Changed the letter case of method names to follow the naming convention as described in .NET Framework Naming Guidelines (.NET only)

27 May 2005 - UnicodeConverter v1.2 Java version

  • Added support for Unicode Composite (Decomposed or 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)

19 April 2005 - UnicodeConverter v1.2 Windows & 1.2 .NET versions

  • Added support for Unicode Composite (Decomposed or NFD) and NCR (windows-1252, iso-8859-1) encodings
  • Added file drag-and-drop support
  • Localized user interface
  • Optimized conversion module

21 August 2004 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.9 Windows & 1.1.3 .NET versions

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

21 August 2004 - UnicodeConverter v1.1 Java version

  • 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, Java version

  • Improved conversion speed
  • 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, Java version

  • 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, Java & Windows versions; v1.1.2, .NET version

  • Added support for conversion of Rich Text Format (RTF) files

20 December 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.7, Windows version

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

10 December 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.1.1, .NET version

  • Source encoding, working directory, and file filter are remembered
  • Added support for 'D-' and 'd-' in VIQR encoding
  • Fixed treatment of VPS Hoa font names
  • Added support for converting Word document's Title property

8 December 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.6, Windows version

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

7 December 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.7, Java version

  • Fixed broken TCVN 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://jakarta.apache.org/ant)

18 October 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.6, Java version

  • 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

25 September 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.1, .NET version

  • Added support for conversion of Word documents
  • Ported J++ version to C#

14 August 2002 - UnicodeConverter v1.0.5b, Windows version

  • 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

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