viscii-codec 1.0.0

viscii codec support

viscii-codec

viscii-codec is a Python package adding support for the viscii codecs. viscii is a legacy vietnamese language codec.

This package has been tested on python 3.8, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14

Installation

The viscii-codec package is available on pypi and can be installed using any package manager.

pip install viscii-codec

uv add viscii-codec

Usage

To encode "Xin chào, thế giới!" (Hello World! according to translate) using viscii use:

# You must import the package to register the codec.
>>> import viscii
>>> "Xin chào, thế giới!".encode('viscii')
b'Xin ch\xe0o, th\xaa gi\xbei!'

To decode viscii bytes into unicode use:

>>> import viscii
>>> b'Xin ch\xe0o, th\xaa gi\xbei!'.decode('viscii')
'Xin chào, thế giới!'

Sources

The mapping was generated from RFC-1456 and cross referenced with the vietstd report of September 1992.