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There are over 100 languages spoken in India, many of which are not even Hindustani in origin. The Indian government primarily recognizes two languages: Hindi a

There are over 100 languages spoken in India, many of which are not even Hindustani in origin. The Indian government primarily recognizes two languages: Hindi and Urdu. Additionally, Urdu is the official national language of Pakistan. Are speakers of Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Punjabi, etc. really supposed to depend on the Indian government to assure that the Unicode Consortium supports their native tongues? What about speakers of Hindustani/Indo-Iranian languages who do not live in India? I don't think it's right to pin the blame on India and tell Bengali speakers that they're barking up the wrong tree. If the Unicode Consortium purports to set the standard for the encoding of human speech, then it seems to me that the responsibility should fall squarely on them.

mlmonkey 12y ago
The Indian government recognizes 22 languages, not 2. The government has a department dedicated to their support: http://tdil.mit.gov.in http://tdil.mit.gov.in Why isn't someone asking that department WTF has it been doing? Added later: and there's also CDAC http://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=mlingual http://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=mlingual which has been at it since 1988.
- rpedroso 12y ago
  I don't purport to know what the Technology Development for Indian Languages Departments is doing with its time, but perhaps its inefficacy is a signal that speakers of such languages should not need to depend on them for techno-linguistic representation.