Re: [whatwg/encoding] Editorial: revamp the way we deal with code points and bytes (#247)

@domenic commented on this pull request.



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- <li><p>Return a code point whose value is 0xF780 + <var>byte</var> &minus; 0x80.
+ <li><p>If <var>byte</var> is an <a>ASCII byte</a>, then return a <a>code point</a> whose
+ <a for="code point">value</a> is <var>byteValue</var>.
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+ <li><p>Return a <a>code point</a> whose <a for="code point">value</a> is
+ 0xF780 + <var>byteValue</var> &minus; 0x80.

FWIW I intuitively like making the code point <—> byte/number conversions explicit, and don't see as much of a need for distinguishing bytes and numbers. (I'd be OK defining bytes as a subtype of numbers, if we ever make progress on defining numbers.)

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