# لا تقم بإزالة التشكيل عند البحث في الفيتنامية

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-strip-diacritics-for-search-in-vietnamese/96050
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [31 أغسطس 2018، 12:52ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-strip-diacritics-for-search-in-vietnamese/96050 "2018-08-31T00:52:45Z")
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#### Post date: [31 أغسطس 2018، 12:58ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-not-strip-diacritics-for-search-in-vietnamese/96050/2 "2018-08-31T00:58:16Z")

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Yes this is pretty tricky, I can see how it is a problem for Vietnamese communities, the excerpts must look very confusing.

In Vietnamese is there ever a reason to type without diacritics? eg type khong and mean không? I imagine it is a super duper hard **no** cause the language is tone based, so the is the equivalent of me typing “dog” and meaning “milk”.

I think the best way forward here is to make diacritic stripping optional and turn this off in Vietnamese communities.

A bigger and more complex change is to amend it so excerpts are generated based off cooked and not the “normalized” cooked text.

FYI English speakers:

dấu: A sign  
dàu: Head  
dãu: Pudding

So yeah this is a pretty giant issue for Vietnamese.

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