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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, ghe@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:49:53 -0400
> 
>   > Why would someone need to install anything for Vietnamese?  It uses
>   > the Latin script, so should be supported OOTB.
> 
> I don't know whether it is, but I do know that Vietnamese
> uses diacritical marks that other languages don't use.

Fonts support scripts, not languages.  A font that supports the Latin
script will normally support the diacriticals needed for Vietnamese.