Myanmar information technology volunteers assisting mobile phone users switching from the old Zawgyi font to the unicode font in Yangon. — AFP
YANGON: 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.
Tech experts say the move to bring the country more in step with the rest of the digital world is crucial, but will cause "chaos" in a rocky transition period.
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