> Editor’s note: SFGATE recognizes the importance of diacritical marks in the Hawaiian language. We are unable to use them due to the limitations of our publishing platform.

I'm struggling to imagine how this can be the case in 2026 on a news website covering, of all places, San Francisco. What COBOL mainframe do they have rendering this page?

At a guess: The articles are stored in some oldass MySQL DB that doesn't support Unicode, and they've somehow never gotten around to migrating the tables to a new schema.