today's Yangon, makes it possible to spread one specific narrative and propaganda throughout the country, something which I address in chapter 6. Is There any Easy Fix? Considering the extent of areas Zawgyi affect, there is no obvious way of managing it. The government could ban the use of Zawgyi all at once, but how would they manage to help everyone that needs help in this process to make the change practically? There would be an enormous logistic demand and technical challenge to manage such a big project. What would happen with the people that did not change, or do not have the opportunity to change? It would be realistic to fear a collapse if the government demanded such a thing on short notice. Other countries, like Cambodia with their Khmer language, have avoided this kind of issues in making one clear message early on encouraging people to use the Unicode-version of their language, and the whole situation was avoided. It seems like it is too late for Myanmar to do this now, it is just too big of a project and too big of a risk. Other governmental instances that have encountered this issue is The People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR government and the even UK, that all implemented the use of an encoding standard (font) that supports Unicode. This was done in consideration of the implementation of a better option and accurate information regarding E-Governmental procedures. (Liao, 2017, pp. 21-22) Thura, working with technology and development did not have a positive outlook or suggestion, neither did Dedan or Win. All of them agreed that some kind of action needs to be put forward in this. Unicode should be the main font, but they do not know how it should be done. Moreover, as we know, a lot of other local users do not even think about this issue from day to day basis, it is a particular group with a special interest that is concerned with the issue. As it is with technology, change happens quickly, and even after my return to Norway, there has been some development. Yangon Connection is a Facebook group that gathers mostly foreigners living in Yangon, as well as some local users, often working in international companies, renting out apartments to foreigners or so on. In this group issues or questions of all sorts are being discussed, and in 62 Figure VI – Screenshot from Facebook feed, February 2019

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