<story><title>I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode</title><url>https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlmonkey</author><text>I get the author&amp;#x27;s point, but assigning blame to the Unicode Consortium is incorrect. The Indian government dropped the ball here. They went their separate way with &amp;quot;ISCII&amp;quot; and other  such misguided efforts, instead of cooperating with UC. To me, the UC is just a platform.&lt;p&gt;The government is the de facto safeguarder of the people&amp;#x27;s interests; if it drops the ball, it should be taken to task, not the provider of the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpedroso</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x2F;Indo-Iranian languages who do not live in India?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s right to pin the blame on India and tell Bengali speakers that they&amp;#x27;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.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode</title><url>https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlmonkey</author><text>I get the author&amp;#x27;s point, but assigning blame to the Unicode Consortium is incorrect. The Indian government dropped the ball here. They went their separate way with &amp;quot;ISCII&amp;quot; and other  such misguided efforts, instead of cooperating with UC. To me, the UC is just a platform.&lt;p&gt;The government is the de facto safeguarder of the people&amp;#x27;s interests; if it drops the ball, it should be taken to task, not the provider of the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a_c_s</author><text>This is a terrible excuse: the Unicode Consortium should always seek out at least one (if not a group of) native speakers of a language before defining code points for that language. These speakers really should be both native speakers of and experts in the language.&lt;p&gt;There are countless ways to reach out to Bengali speakers, only one of which is the Indian government - whatever politics governments may play, a technocratic institution should be focused on getting things correct.</text></comment>