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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
by webitorial 12y ago
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.