5/27/22, 8:18 PM Integrating autoconversion: Facebook’s path from Zawgyi to Unicode - Engineering at Meta POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 TO ANDROID, IOS, ML APPLICATIONS, OPEN SOURCE Integrating autoconversion: Facebook’s path from Zawgyi to Unicode By Nick LaGrow, Miri Pruzan Myanmar is currently the only country in the world with a significant online presence that hasn’t standardized on Unic typeface used to encode Burmese language characters. This lack of a single standard has resulted in technical challe makes communication on digital platforms difficult, as content written in Unicode appears garbled to Zawgyi users an posts, messages, and comments written in one encoding are not readable in another. The lack of standardization aro harder, it can weaken account security, it makes reporting potentially harmful content on Facebook less efficient, and https://engineering.fb.com/2019/09/26/android/unicode-font-converter/ 1/7