Battle of the fonts

 

The boom in smartphone use has fuelled a long-simmering controversy in the IT community over adopting Unicode as the standard for character encoding in Myanmar, instead of Zawgyi.

By GRIFFIN HOTCHKISS | FRONTIER

A passionate Michael Suantak was speaking in the Phandeeyar tech hub’s downtown Yangon office.

“They should not cheat the people; they should not cheat the future,” Mr Suantak said. “At the moment they will be very popular…but when the people realise [they have been cheated], after five or ten years, they will be very angry. So we cannot compromise,” he said.

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