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The Vietnamese national language (quốc ngữ), in use today, uses the Latin script. Albeit the Romanized script of the quốc ngữ seems fitted to the use of the Internet on a large extent, for many of them, Vietnamese users seem lost when looking for foreign places or great names in history that they only know by a poor and erratic translation in their own language. Foreign place names or family names were added to the language’s lexicon without any proper intent of normalization. Finding a standardized transcription is on the way, in a slow and necessary process.