Re: Review glossary entries for conflicts with or consistency with infra

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See the GH issue at https://github.com/w3c/i18n-glossary/issues/49

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r12a wrote on 27/04/2023 10:38:
> This lists terms that are defined in both our glossary and that of 
> INFRA. (For action 1251)
>
>
> ASCII case-insensitive matching
>     link to infra but no embedded definition - no clash, but ours is 
> more explanatory
>
> Code point
> no link
>     i18n:
> Code point. A code point value represents the position of a character 
> in a coded character set. For example, the code point for the letter á 
> in the Unicode coded character set is 225 in decimal, or 0xE1 in 
> hexadecimal notation. Hexadecimal notation is commonly used for 
> referring to code points. See also Unicode code point 
> <https://w3c.github.io/i18n-glossary/#dfn-unicode-code-point>.
>    INFRA:
> A code pointis a Unicode code point and is represented as "U+" 
> followed by four-to-six ASCII upper hex digits 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#ascii-upper-hex-digit>, in the range 
> U+0000 to U+10FFFF, inclusive. A code point 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#code-point>’s valueis its underlying 
> number.
>
> A code point <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#code-point> may be 
> followed by its name, by its rendered form between parentheses when it 
> is not U+0028 or U+0029, or by both. Documents using the Infra 
> Standard are encouraged to follow code points 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#code-point> by their name when they 
> cannot be rendered or are U+0028 or U+0029; otherwise, follow them by 
> their rendered form between parentheses, for legibility.
>
> A code point <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#code-point>’s name is 
> defined in Unicode and represented in ASCII uppercase 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#ascii-uppercase>. [UNICODE] 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#biblio-unicode>
>
> Code unit.
> no link
> i18n:
> Code unit. The units of data used by a character encoding 
> <https://w3c.github.io/i18n-glossary/#dfn-character-encoding> to 
> encode or serialize characters into a programming language or other 
> serialized form (such as a file). Common code units are 8-, 16-, and 
> 32-bits in size. On the Web we are mostly concerned with /bytes/, 
> which are technically "8-bit code units". However, in Javascript a 
> |char| is a 16-bit code unit (related to the UTF-16 encoding of Unicode)
>     INFRA:
> A stringis a sequence of unsigned 16-bit integers, also known as code 
> units. A string <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#string> is also known 
> as a JavaScript string <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#string>. 
> Strings <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#string> are denoted by double 
> quotes and monospace font.
>
>
> */Scalar value/*
> no link
>     i18n:*//*
>
> *//*/Scalar value/, see Unicode scalar value 
> <https://w3c.github.io/i18n-glossary/#dfn-scalar-value>.
>
> INFRA:
>
> A scalar valueis a code point 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#code-point> that is not a surrogate 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#surrogate>.
>
>
> Surrogate code point
>     link
> i18n:
>
> Surrogate code point. Unicode definition 
> <https://www.unicode.org/glossary/#surrogate_code_point>: "A Unicode 
> code point in the range U+D800..U+DFFF. Reserved for use by UTF-16, 
> where a pair of surrogate code units (a high surrogate followed by a 
> low surrogate) “stand in” for a supplementary code point 
> <https://w3c.github.io/i18n-glossary/#dfn-supplementary-code-point>." 
> This term is also defined by [INFRA 
> <https://w3c.github.io/i18n-glossary/#bib-infra>].
>
>     INFRA:
>
> A surrogateis a leading surrogate 
> <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#leading-surrogate> or a trailing 
> surrogate <https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#trailing-surrogate>.
>
>