Re: For review: Character encodings in HTML and CSS

Richard Ishida scripsit:

> > "A coded character set is a set of characters for which a unique
> > number has been assigned to each character. Units of a coded character
> > set are known as code points."

I think this wording is needlessly confusing: a CCS is not a set, but a
mapping.  I propose:

"A coded character set is a mapping from characters to numbers known as
code points.  Each character is assigned a different number."

> > s/non-ASCII/non-US-ASCII/
> 
> We don't use US-ASCII elsewhere (since I don't think we need that
> level of specificity) so I don't think we should here.

There's no ASCII but US-ASCII: see http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/ascii.html .

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