Thank you ukeyilan for this excellent and informative answer ! You really hit a great number of the technical and cultural reasons for not ' reforming ' the script . And I concur completely . The only sort of mundane thing I might add though perhaps a bit outside the scope of OP ' s question would be that IMO although I would prefer to maintain the script as it is for the reasons you explained , I would nevertheless be thrilled if a definitive decision could be made for digital audiences between the use of Zawgyione font and unicode . A brief discussion of that situation and its historical roots can be read ofthefonts for anyone interested . <| sep |> Wish me luck . Going now to talk to a good friend of mine to try and fix between us after a big argument . Had to check FTF first though .