Of course it’s not “misleading”. Human language is best conveyed by text.
Michael Everson > On 19 Nov 2019, at 18:59, Costello, Roger L. via Unicode > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Today I received an email from the Unicode organization. The email said this: > (italics and yellow highlighting are mine) > > The Unicode Standard is the foundation for all modern software and > communications around the world, including all modern operating systems, > browsers, laptops, and smart phones—plus the Internet and Web (URLs, HTML, > XML, CSS, JSON, etc.). > > That is a remarkable statement! But is it entirely true? Isn’t it assuming > that everything is text? What about binary information such as JPEG, GIF, > MPEG, WAV; those are pretty core items to the Web, right? The Unicode > Standard is silent about them, right? Isn’t the above quote a bit misleading? > > /Roger
