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Zawgyi

Zawgyi proper noun: a non-Unicode-compliant Burmese font.

Proper noun

Zawgyi

  1. A non-Unicode-compliant Burmese font.
    • Today around 90 percent of people use Zawgyi instead of Unicode.
    • Incompatible without fiddly plug-ins, it only allows people to communicate in Burmese with other Zawgyi users, excluding the nation’s minority languages. Its clunkiness also means search functions do not work, crippling data storage systems.2019 September 27, “Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world”, in The Japan Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2020

Questions about Zawgyi

What does Zawgyi mean?
Zawgyi means a non-Unicode-compliant Burmese font.
What part of speech is Zawgyi?
Zawgyi is a proper noun.

Words near Zawgyi in the dictionary

  1. Zawadas
  2. Zawadzki
  3. Zawadzkis
  4. zawg
  5. zawgs
  6. Zawgyi
  7. Zawiercie
  8. Zawinski's law
  9. Zawislak
  10. Zawislaks
  11. Zawistowski

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