[jfk13]

> (I also seem to remember a Tamil user who said that there might be a section of Unicode called "Tamil", but it's missing a tonne of characters they would like to use, so Unicode still has some way to go I guess)

Tamil Unicode is perfectly usable; this sounds like someone who didn't understand the encoding model, and expected to see a separate Unicode character for each consonant/vowel combination.

[craig0990]

That is entirely possible. As somebody who doesn't read/write anything beyond English, I didn't want to disagree.

The "virtual keyboards" I've seen in use for non-Latin writing systems seem cumbersome to me as an outsider, so perhaps they found it difficult to produce the right combinations to achieve what they wanted.

I'm always a bit disappointed that my response to the issue of trying to digitise someone's culture is to kinda shrug and say "that's the best we've got".