On 1 October 2019, Myanmar hopes to begin its migration from its use of the nationally developed Zawgyi computer font to the adoption of a unified system that conforms to the international standard ...

Limitation of the project -Although Unicode is and international language, it cannot be used easily and understood for everyone. -Although some of the code-points in Zawgyi are similar to the Myanmar ...

YANGON, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar government has launched migration of Unicode standard across the country to support e-government program for the development of the nation.

This photograph taken on 22 September, 2019 shows Myanmar information technology volunteers assisting a mobile phone user switching from the old Zawgyi font to the unicode font in Yangon.

October 1 is “U-Day”, when Myanmar officially adopts the new system. From then on, all electronic communication from government offices, telecoms companies, banks and media must be in Unicode by law.

Syllable segmentation, which is the basic and important level for Myanmar NLP, Myanmar Syllable Segmentation (MSS) Algorithm will be presented in this paper based on the Pyidaungsu font currently ...