Yeah, when I started doing this, Unicode was my first instinct. I even downloaded a couple of Bangla Unicode word processors.
But, they lack the Juktakkhors. It's a huge drawback. Realistically, Bangla doesn't just have 50 letters. Counting the juktakkhors, it requires around 215 characters/glyphs for proper printing.
The current Bangla fonts that claim themselves to be Unicode compatible match the vowels and consonants in the actual unicode and then add the juktakkhors by replacing some other language's characters.
I actually made my own unicode Bangla font a year back using a font maker software. But, as long as there are no unicode standards including juktakkhors, I figured there's no use of that.
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