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Moving from Built-in macOS Vietnamese to KeyVi

The built-in macOS Vietnamese input source has nothing to import. What you can bring along is your Text Replacements list. You can keep or remove the built-in Vietnamese source. While you use KeyVi, choose the ABC or U.S. keyboard.

Get your macros out of Built-in macOS Vietnamese

  1. Open System Settings > Keyboard > Text Replacements. VERIFY The item name on each macOS version.
  2. Select the rows to bring (Command + A selects all) and drag them to the Desktop. macOS creates a .plist file. VERIFY
  3. Import that .plist file into KeyVi as described above.

VERIFY The steps above describe what you see in that app's own window and have not yet been checked against the latest version. If a label differs, follow the closest one and tell us so we can fix this page.

Import into KeyVi

  1. Open KeyVi, go to Settings > Macros > Import from file... (or choose Choose file... at the import step during setup).
  2. Read the preview: counts of new, duplicate and invalid rows. For duplicates, choose to keep yours or use the imported one.
  3. Invalid rows are skipped with a reason; one bad row never ruins the whole import.

Quit Built-in macOS Vietnamese and stop it from opening at login

Two input methods at once make letters double or vanish. Quit Built-in macOS Vietnamese and stop it from starting at login.

  1. Open System Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources (or Text Input). VERIFY The item name on each macOS version.
  2. Click Edit, and add the ABC or U.S. keyboard if it is not there.
  3. Select the built-in Vietnamese source and press the minus (-) button to remove it if you no longer use it. Removing it is optional; keeping it is harmless as long as you choose ABC or U.S. when typing with KeyVi.