A number of changes to the Myanmar script and proposed support for additional South east Asian support are in the ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode pipelines over the next year or two.
Andrew West provides a very good summary of what will be in Unicode 5.1 in his post What’s new in Unicode 5.1 ?.
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I’ve been looking into Unicode support for the Myanmar Script. A few local projects require Unicode support for Myanmar (Burmese), Mon and S’gaw Karen. The existing Unicode Myanmar block only supports Myanmar (Burmese). Unicode 5.1 will make changes to the existing Myanmar block and add additional characters for Mon and S’gaw Karen. Proposals have been submitted to add additional characters to support other ethnic minority languages of the Myanmar Union.
The following notes attempt to summarize current status of Unicode support for the Myanmar script.
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