unicode encoding _ Vietnamese letters

[Chungmann Kim]

Hi, this is Manny working at SNU GSIAT, Korea

I have a dataset which includes vietnamese letters.

So I found unicode encoding command to translate them into readable letters.

I chose ibm-5348_P100-1997 as an encoding set, yet still there are a few more words appear to be awkward.

Will you kindly advise me on what other options or suitable encoding set that can help me change vietnamese letters into a legible format.

Many thanks,

Manny

[Andrew Musau]

See Robert Picard's suggestion #5 from the following link

https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...phabet-letters

ADDED IN EDIT: Here is the implementation applied to the Vietnamese alphabet

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input str4 alphabet
"Aa"  
"Ăă"
"Ââ"
"Bb"  
"Cc"  
"Dd"  
"Đđ"
"Ee"  
"Êê"
"Gg"  
"Hh"  
"Ii"  
"Kk"  
"Ll"  
"Mm"  
"Nn"  
"Oo"  
"Ôô"
"Ơơ"
"Pp"  
"Qq"  
"Rr"  
"Ss"  
"Tt"  
"Uu"  
"Ưư"
"Vv"  
"Xx"  
"Yy"  
end

gen alphabet2 = usubinstr(alphabet,"Đđ","Dd",.)
replace alphabet2 = ustrto(ustrnormalize(alphabet2, "nfd"), "ascii", 2)
l, clean

Resulting in

. l, clean

       alphabet   alphab~2  
  1.         Aa         Aa  
  2.         Ăă         Aa  
  3.         Ââ         Aa  
  4.         Bb         Bb  
  5.         Cc         Cc  
  6.         Dd         Dd  
  7.         Đđ         Dd  
  8.         Ee         Ee  
  9.         Êê         Ee  
 10.         Gg         Gg  
 11.         Hh         Hh  
 12.         Ii         Ii  
 13.         Kk         Kk  
 14.         Ll         Ll  
 15.         Mm         Mm  
 16.         Nn         Nn  
 17.         Oo         Oo  
 18.         Ôô         Oo  
 19.         Ơơ         Oo  
 20.         Pp         Pp  
 21.         Qq         Qq  
 22.         Rr         Rr  
 23.         Ss         Ss  
 24.         Tt         Tt  
 25.         Uu         Uu  
 26.         Ưư         Uu  
 27.         Vv         Vv  
 28.         Xx         Xx  
 29.         Yy         Yy

[Chungmann Kim]

Dear Andrew Musau
Thank you so much for your bright solution.

It helped me a lot.

Best,

Manny