# What diacritics should be on "pho" (as in soup)?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diacritics-should-be-on-pho-as-in-soup/211774
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 6, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diacritics-should-be-on-pho-as-in-soup/211774 "2003-11-06T21:01:58Z")
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### Author:  [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diacritics-should-be-on-pho-as-in-soup/211774/1 "2003-11-06T21:01:58Z")
I don’t have access to any Vietnamese advice or references. I tried doing a web search, but most websites leave it unmarked. Maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be, but I’m almost sure it’s something like “phô.” Can anyone help me out?
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### Author:  [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diacritics-should-be-on-pho-as-in-soup/211774/2 "2003-11-06T21:06:31Z")
Oops, one more thing: I also have ‘bahn pho,’ which is what the noodles are called. Should ‘bahn’ have any marks on it?
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### Author:  [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diacritics-should-be-on-pho-as-in-soup/211774/3 "2003-11-06T21:43:12Z")
[Here](http://www.phohoa.com/menu.html) is a menu page from a Pho chain on the West Coast. It looks like an acute accent, plus a curl off the top right of the o. I believe it is Unicode character 1EDB, described as Latin Small Letter O with Horn and Acute.
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### Author:  [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-diacritics-should-be-on-pho-as-in-soup/211774/4 "2003-11-06T22:23:12Z")
Thanks muchly, **JohnM.** It looks like I’ll have to leave it plain, as none of the fonts I’m using seem to contain the character needed. I see that the menu you linked to uses it unaccented in several places, so I guess I’m okay. Though, as a typography weirdo, I’d prefer to do it right.