That's ridiculous. How can you expect UC to reach out to the 1000s of languages out there? Plus, shouldn't the party who expects to benefit put in the effort?
Did you know that the Indian Government has a department for just such a thing, http://tdil.mit.gov.in/ ? What has it been doing all these years?
"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.
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.
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.
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.
How can you not expect UC to reach out to the 1000s of languages out there, when their entire and sole reason to exist is to allow computers to work with all of those languages?
There's no point in taking on a job and then declaring it to be too difficult.
UC's job is to coordinate. There are plenty initiatives for all kind of languages. I havn't contributed, but I followed the mediaeval unicode initiative a bit. The barriers for contributing seem very low. The Wikipedia-analogy elsewhere here describes the situation very well. Complaing Unicode sucks for language X and the consortium is to blame is like complain that the x language Wikipedia sucks and wikimedia is to blame.
Did you know that the Indian Government has a department for just such a thing, http://tdil.mit.gov.in/ ? What has it been doing all these years?
Added later: there's also CDAC http://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=mlingual . And these are just 2 that I found quickly.