While it is good to bring awareness to this, we are still growing in this area. In fact we should applaud the efforts so far that we even have a standard that somewhat works for most of the digital world. Does it need to evolve further, yes.
I am sure the engineers and multi-lingual people that stepped up to do Unicode and organize it aren't trying to exclude anyone. Largely it comes down to who has been investing in the progress and time. It may even be easier to fund and move this along further in this time, it was hard to fund anything like this before the internet really hit and largely relied on corporations to fund software evolution and standards.
In no way should the engineers or group getting us this far (UC) be chided or lambasted for progressing us to this step, this is truly a case of no good deed goes unpunished.
Generally true, but the problem here is not an issue of bandwidth or racism. Unicode can represent this character, but does so with two codepoints, a technical decision the author doesn't feel is useful. He blames this on the dominance of white people in the work (a questionable assumption, given he didn't link to the extensive list of international liaisons and international standards bodies). The participants in Unicode, including a native Bengali speaker who responded above, considered the argument presented but chose a different path to be consistent with how other characters are treated. The author needs to more carefully distinguish the codepoint, input, and rendering issues raised in his argument.
While it is good to bring awareness to this, we are still growing in this area. In fact we should applaud the efforts so far that we even have a standard that somewhat works for most of the digital world. Does it need to evolve further, yes.
I am sure the engineers and multi-lingual people that stepped up to do Unicode and organize it aren't trying to exclude anyone. Largely it comes down to who has been investing in the progress and time. It may even be easier to fund and move this along further in this time, it was hard to fund anything like this before the internet really hit and largely relied on corporations to fund software evolution and standards.
In no way should the engineers or group getting us this far (UC) be chided or lambasted for progressing us to this step, this is truly a case of no good deed goes unpunished.