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Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world
- siraben 6y agoThis is good news to hear. Last year I helped set up Android phones with Burmese immigrants in Thailand and they gave me confused looks when I switched the script to Unicode, especially since all their friends on social media would be using Zawgyi, so I ended up switching the phones to English and Zawgyi on a per-app (e.g. Facebook) basis. However, it may be toughest to make this switch for casual users since the "broken" Unicode essentially stops them from being able to communicate with others.
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawgyi_font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawgyi_font Seems like what “Zawgyi” refers to is a Unicode font that uses the Burmese block in Unicode but maps the characters in a way that's completely incompatible with standards-compliant fonts. Sounds horrible.
- numpad0 6y ago> Furthermore, there were significant revisions in Unicode's implementation of Burmese script up until Unicode 5.1 in 2008. So they didn’t have full Burmese support anyway until as recent as 2008?