Re: [whatwg/encoding] Inform readers about the structure of the sparsity of index-euc-kr (#78)

> Why is that called a stride?

It seemed confusing to call it a row, because the pre-Unicode CJK standards, KS X 1001 included, use a 94 by 94 grid, where a "row" is 94 cells wide. Since EUC-KR lead minus offset gets multiplied by something other than 94, it seemed bad to say "row". I used "stride" by analogy with the notion of [how many bytes a pixel row takes](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa473780(v=vs.85).aspx) even if it isn't fully filled with visible pixels.

I'm not aware of "stride" being standard character encoding terminology and am OK with another word as long as it's not too easy to mix up with "rows" in the original standards.

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