It says "foundation", not "sum total, all there is." I don't think this
is much overreach. MAYBE it counts as "enthusiastic", but not misleading.
Why so concerned with these minutiæ? Were you in fact misled? (Doesn't
sound like it.) Do you know someone who was, or whom you fear would
be? What incorrect conclusions might they draw from that
misunderstanding, and how serious would they be? Doesn't sound like
this is really anything serious even if you were right.
~mark
On 11/19/19 1:59 PM, Costello, Roger L. via Unicode 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
