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There are various Unicode fonts which contain Burmese script: Pyidaungsu (national standard font, set by The National Standard Council of Myanmar to use on the Internet and in government offices): [1] Pyidaungsu (Unicodetoday.org) Pyidaungsu Fonts and Keyboards (Myanmar National Portal), Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
In Myanmar, devices and software localisation often use Zawgyi fonts rather than Unicode-compliant fonts. [6] These use the same range as the Unicode Myanmar block (0x1000–0x109F), and are even applied to text encoded like UTF-8 (although Zawgyi text does not officially constitute UTF-8), despite only a subset of the code points being ...
The Burmese alphabet was derived from the Pyu script, the Old Mon script, or directly from a South Indian script, [3] either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet. [1] The earliest evidence of the Burmese alphabet is dated to 1035, while a casting made in the 18th century of an old stone inscription points to 984. [ 1 ]
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Zawgyi font [a] is a predominant typeface used for Burmese language text on websites. It supports the Burmese script using its Myanmar Unicode block following a non-compliant implementation. Prior to 2019, it was the most popular font on Burmese websites.
The national standard keyboard layout is known as the Myanmar3 layout, and it was published along with the Myanmar3 Unicode font. The layout, developed by the Myanmar Unicode and NLP Research Center , has a smart input system to cover the complex structures of Burmese and related scripts.
Windows 8 includes a Unicode-compliant Burmese font named "Myanmar Text". Windows 8 also includes a Burmese keyboard layout. Windows 8 also includes a Burmese keyboard layout. [ citation needed ] Due to the popularity of the font in this OS, Microsoft kept its support in Windows 10 .
Chances are that your Android device will include Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and most East-Asian fonts (except Yi), as well as Greek, Thai and Hebrew, meaning that you will be able to read, and once you have a proper keyboard, to write, languages spoken by a majority of the world's population.