diff --git a/src/hb-config.hh b/src/hb-config.hh
index 09197c16a..bda077ef3 100644
--- a/src/hb-config.hh
+++ b/src/hb-config.hh
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
 #define HB_NO_OT_SHAPER_HEBREW_FALLBACK
 #define HB_NO_OT_SHAPER_THAI_FALLBACK
 #define HB_NO_OT_SHAPER_VOWEL_CONSTRAINTS
+#define HB_NO_OT_SHAPER_MYANMAR_ZAWGYI
 #endif
 
 #ifdef NDEBUG
diff --git a/src/hb-ot-shaper-myanmar.cc b/src/hb-ot-shaper-myanmar.cc
index 90ccd2d6a..1b2a085a8 100644
--- a/src/hb-ot-shaper-myanmar.cc
+++ b/src/hb-ot-shaper-myanmar.cc
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ const hb_ot_shaper_t _hb_ot_shaper_myanmar =
 };
 
 
+#ifndef HB_NO_OT_SHAPER_MYANMAR_ZAWGYI
 /* Ugly Zawgyi encoding.
  * Disable all auto processing.
  * https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1162 */
@@ -383,6 +384,7 @@ const hb_ot_shaper_t _hb_ot_shaper_myanmar_zawgyi =
   HB_OT_SHAPE_ZERO_WIDTH_MARKS_NONE,
   false, /* fallback_position */
 };
+#endif
 
 
 #endif
diff --git a/src/hb-ot-shaper.hh b/src/hb-ot-shaper.hh
index b2d1acb39..0207b2bbe 100644
--- a/src/hb-ot-shaper.hh
+++ b/src/hb-ot-shaper.hh
@@ -262,11 +262,13 @@ hb_ot_shaper_categorize (const hb_ot_shape_planner_t *planner)
 	return &_hb_ot_shaper_myanmar;
 
 
+#ifndef HB_NO_OT_SHAPER_MYANMAR_ZAWGYI
 #define HB_SCRIPT_MYANMAR_ZAWGYI	((hb_script_t) HB_TAG ('Q','a','a','g'))
     case HB_SCRIPT_MYANMAR_ZAWGYI:
     /* https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1162 */
 
       return &_hb_ot_shaper_myanmar_zawgyi;
+#endif
 
 
     /* Unicode-2.0 additions */