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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.
Note that the most common font for Burmese script, Zawgyi, is not compatible with Unicode. Burmese text encoded with Zawgyi will appear garbled to a reader using a Unicode font and vice versa. For details on the implications of this distinction, see my:Wikipedia:Font on the Burmese Wikipedia (in English). Wikimedia Foundation policy is that all ...
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 interpreted the same way. Zawgyi lacks support for Myanmar-script languages other than Burmese, but heuristic methods ...
The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese. It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India. The Burmese alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.
The prevailing means of Burmese support is via the Zawgyi font, a font that was created as a Unicode font but was in fact only partially Unicode compliant. [16] In the Zawgyi font, some codepoints for Burmese script were implemented as specified in Unicode, but others were not. [17] The Unicode Consortium refers to this as ad hoc font encodings ...
Zawgyi may refer to: Zawgyi (alchemist), Burmese shaman or magician, skilled in Tantric lore; Zawgyi (writer), Burmese poet and author; Zawgyi dance, a dance in Burma; Zawgyi font, a non-Unicode typeface for the Burmese script; Zawgyi River, a river in Myanmar
Recently [when?] the Book of Psalms, Book of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes were released in electronic versions such as YouVersion app and Myanmar Standard Bible app for Android on the Google Play Store, both in Zawgyi font [2] and Unicode [3] formats. The whole Bible is scheduled to be completed in 2022. [citation needed]
The Mon–Burmese script (Burmese: မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ, listen ⓘ; Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ, listen ⓘ, Thai: อักษรมอญพม่า, listen ⓘ; also called the Mon script, Old Mon script, and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia.