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

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