I don't understand Bengali at all, but the character ৎ does have it's own Unicod...

chimeracoder · on March 17, 2015

Yes, this is what the article says:

> Until 2005, Unicode did not have one of the characters in the Bengali word for “suddenly”.

The codepoint does exist now, but it took ten years before it was included.

Manishearth · on March 18, 2015

... and emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The title of your article is fallacious :/

(though I agree with most of it)