[i18n-activity] "Transformation Formats" might be clearer as character encoding? (#1981)

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== "Transformation Formats" might be clearer as character encoding? ==
## Proposed comment

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bray-unichars/

>    Unicode describes a variety of "transformation formats", ways to
   marshal code points into byte sequences.  A survey of transformation
   formats is beyond the scope of this document.  However, it is useful
   to note that the "UTF-16" format represents each code point with one
   or two 16-bit chunks, and the "UTF-8" format uses variable-length
   byte sequences.

Section 2.1 is labelled "Transformation Formats" and uses that term instead of the more familiar "character encoding" or "character encoding form". It is the case that "UTF" stands for "Unicode Transformation Format" and is part of the name of Unicode's character encodings, but that seems like a good footnote rather than something we want to use in general.


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