Việt Mercury, the weekly Vietnamese edition of Knight-Ridder's San José Mercury News, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, continues to be the only newspaper to publish online without using Unicode.
The newspaper refuses to modernize to Unicode, despite repeated complaints from readers of the print version. This is a rather strange business attitude to take, because web searches in Vietnamese never turn up any items from the online newspaper. Just click here to search for the most common Vietnamese family name -- "Nguyễn" -- on the site: there are no Google results.
Wouldn't this translate into lost opportunities for people to reach the newspaper via search hits?
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