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"The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation devoted to developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards and data, particul

"The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation devoted to developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards and data, particularly the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards." The fact that it is their goal to set the standard for the textual representation of human speech means that they take on that responsibility.

mlmonkey 12y ago
This is like complaining that Wikipedia has only 35K Bengali articles, while English has over 4.7M! <s>Why is Wikipedia not doing more to translate the 4.7M articles into Bengali? It does claim to be the world's encyclopedia!</s>
- com2kid 12y ago
  Wikipedia is not forced unto the world as everyone's only source of knowledge. Unicode on the other hand is the only way many people have to input and see text in their native language. When one group proposes being the ultimate solution to everyone's problems, and then pushes their standard forward as such, complaints about inadequacies in the solution presented are perfectly fair and valid.
  - ptaipale 12y ago
    Unicode is not "forced" unto the world either. It's just a good way to do the thing it does, but it doesn't happen without contribution from those who are impacted.
    - Qwertious 12y ago
      The word is "unicode". "Uni" as in "united". Wikipedia doesn't claim to be the One True Encyclopedia, but with Unicode it's literally right there in the name.
      - hawleyal 12y ago
        That is a stretch.