Hacker News Reader

Chinese-like characters, which were transliterated by Europeans into Latin. This system was made official by the French rulers of Vietnam.

View on HN

So you're saying that because the country was once colonized, their writing system is not "real" enough for you, and you only consider it a transliteration? That seems extremely disrespectful.

Nope, I didn't say any of that.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com