Aung spent the next hour copying the text into a modern Unicode converter, careful not to lose a single vowel. He knew he couldn't keep the font installed forever. Using Zawgyi on Windows 10 often messed up the sorting order of files and made searching within documents unreliable. It was a tool for the past, not the future.
Aung hesitated. Installing a non-Unicode font on a modern system felt like inviting a ghost into a new house. It worked, but it required specific settings to coexist peacefully. He clicked 'Yes'.
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Because it was free and easy to type, it spread like wildfire. When the smartphone boom hit Myanmar around 2013, shops would pre-install Zawgyi on every new phone. It became the language of the Saffron Revolution and the primary way 50 million people communicated on Global Voices The "Civil War" of Fonts