Myanmar hopes to complete its migration from its use of Zawgyi font to the adoption of a unified system of fonts that conform to the international standard called Unicode.

October 1 is "U-Day", when Myanmar officially adopts the new system. From then on, all electronic communication from government offices, telecoms companies, banks and media must be in Unicode by law.

Myanmar adopts unicode next week, becoming the last nation with significant numbers of people online to embrace the digital text standard ...

YANGON, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar government has launched migration of Unicode standard across the country to support e-government program for the development of the nation.

Code War: Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps in Myanmar is about to get a lot easier when it finally adopts the universal code underpinning phone and online communication next week.