people who engage with foreign people regularly, without direct connection to the categories mentioned above, have more awareness of the issue and are, in principle, pro-Unicode. From what I am told, they would make the change if a solution were more accessible. Win describes in figure V how he wishes there was one standard, but that local users, as long as something functions not really make the change. As soon as a realistically and adequate solution enters the market it would be possible, something that is not in any near future as far as I know. The government’s position is something to consider this case. They could have done something earlier to avoid this problem. It could be tempting to judge and directly criticize the government, especially considering the historical context of the issue. In conversations with Dedan, he would often state with a careless attitude that; “ah, the government don’t care, they do their stuff and don’t care about these things.” Win once told me the government was not able to handle the problem of the fonts, and they had never been. Thura presented a similar attitude to me. These kinds of statements were never a surprise; I received them regularly from different kinds of people. There have been other countries encountering this issue, handling it early on, like Cambodia, where the government declared that everyone selling or distributing in the country needed to use the Khmer-Unicode. The issue was then solved (Hotchkiss, 2016). In Myanmar, however, the risk and inconvenience are too significant in doing so now. At the moment, people are too dependent on Zawgyi. The government has taken some action, however, publicly saying that communication with governmental instances needs to be written in Unicode and that all statements and information are published in Unicode. They do encourage the local user to use Unicode, and the government is making some moves in that direction. There is, however, from what I have been told, still, Zawgyi that is mainly used in communication from a day to day basis, also inside the government. In using one consistent standard font, the government would likely have significant benefits regarding governmental data, legal proceedings, etc. (Liao, 2017). The problem is far from solved and the battle of the fonts is still a reality. The above-mentioned pro-Unicode groups are not alone. As mentioned earlier, Zawgyi does not support the different languages inside the country, since the font does not render these automatically. In Zawgyi, you need to type the characters manually, and since you have access to limited numbers of characters on a keyboard, this can be difficult. Unicode supports all characters, and the rendering happens automatically, you save time and get the correct 60

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