Re: Is the Unicode Standard "The foundation for all modern software and communications around the world"?

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

On 11/19/2019 12:04 PM, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote: Of course it’s not “misleading”. Human language is best conveyed by text. One could insert the language in [ ] to make the claim sound less like an overreach. It doesn't even impede the flow that much. It would still apply to metadata and protocols. A./ 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 [handling written text in] 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