discussion. “To experience my research skills in real life and see if I did what I told them to do,” they joked. A total of four girls and three boys sat in front of me, cramped on the sofa and chairs, the room was a bit too small for our crowd. Some wore jeans, some used longyis, shirts, and t-shirts and one girl made a statement with her pink braces, a fluffy short skirt, and pink and blue stripes in her hair. I call her Chit. One thing they all had in common was the aura and representation of being bright and conscientious students. The next hour turned out to be very informative. After some light conversations, including nervous smiles and laughter from everyone, including myself, we got started with my main focus points. The students did not understand my questions. Encoding systems? Fonts? What is she talking about? After some explanation, the students could confirm that they indeed knew about the conflict. However, it did not have any effect on their daily life. This was not something they talked or thought about. The one exception was Chit. She had used Unicode for several years, being an active user of Facebook and YouTube. Chit translated everything for her family and friends from Unicode using converter tools or simply sent screenshots of the written text, but in the end, she went back to Zawgyi. This was partly since the translation was challenging, and partly because of the new phone she bought had Zawgyi pre-installed. She would not bother to go through the process of changing the setting to Unicode, which could be a tedious one. Background The Burmese language is written with characters, the same way as many other languages like Chinese or Thai. Burmese is easy on the eyes with its round and circle-shaped forms, opposite from for example Korean script which consist of mainly square shapes. Burmese script is, like other character-based languages, written on different technological devices such as computers and smartphones. However, unlike most other languages, Burmese had and still has some struggles in this digitalization process. During the military regime, when Myanmar was closed off, only a few people were allowed access to the internet. This meant that most people lacked access to the internet, as well as phones and computers and were in some ways left out on the development of digital character-script. Win, a friend of mine, explained how during the military regime they were not even able to buy a phone. He wrote to me; “When I was 16, I couldn´t even see a mobile phone in real life… …while neighborhood countries starting using 48