> Talking about Bengali being the seventh largest native language, then saying that US$18k is too expensive for a stake in solving this problem?
West Bengal and Bangladesh aren't exactly the richest places in the world.
> Emojis with skin tones, something every human can use, that have arrived before a character that only Bengalis use is taken as an "outright insult"?
Nobody is being inconvenienced by the inability to send emojis with a darker skin tone. People definitely are being inconvenienced by not being able to write a common character of their native language.
I work with a Bangladeshi, and he says that there are more millionaires in Bangladesh than here in Australia. Yes, the people are poor on average, but there's still a lot of money sloshing around.
As to your second point, the top-voted comment in the thread talks about writing exactly that character and gives an example. From the ensuing discussion with the article author, it seems that rather than an inconvenience per se, it's more of a subtle issue. sdg1 also mentions that there's little in the way of local standards, which may be hindering a formal uptake by unicode.
Ultimately the answer is to push the issue with the standards body. If you aren't going to front the money for voting power, then pester the people who do have the power, and make it easier for them by helping them to standardise the codepoints for the language. But whichever path is taken, they must be engaged professionally - saying things like "I take it as an outright insult that you haven't accommodated me yet" is not going to help.
West Bengal and Bangladesh aren't exactly the richest places in the world.
> Emojis with skin tones, something every human can use, that have arrived before a character that only Bengalis use is taken as an "outright insult"?
Nobody is being inconvenienced by the inability to send emojis with a darker skin tone. People definitely are being inconvenienced by not being able to write a common character of their native language.