This is the tricky part. Official websites rarely host old versions. If you search for "Bagan Keyboard Old Version All" on Google, you will find torrents and cracks—many of which contain malware.
Safe sources for abandoned old versions:
Warning: Always scan old .exe files with VirusTotal. Many "cracked" versions of Bagan v2 contain keyloggers.
Old Bagan used a non-standard mapping of Burmese characters to the range 0x80–0xFF in Windows-1252. For example:
This led to mojibake when opened on modern systems.
The “All” designation includes at least four distinct releases:
| Version | Year | Key Changes | Encoding Differences |
|---------|------|-------------|----------------------|
| Bagan 1.0 | 2000 | Basic phonetic order, no shift-stacking | Custom 8-bit (non-ASCII) |
| Bagan 2.0 | 2002 | Added shift for medial -ya/-wa | Modified mapping for vowels |
| Bagan 2.5 | 2003 | Stacked consonant support via q key | Semi-standardized; widely pirated |
| Bagan 3.0 | 2005 | Pre-Unicode hybrid, introduced visual reordering | Partial Unicode mapping but with Zawgyi ordering |
