Re: [heycam/webidl] Replace the word "quoted" from IDL grammar section (#976)

In the same paragraph:

> “.” is tokenized as the quoted terminal symbol . rather than an other.

The "." and "-" terminals are only terminals because they appear within Other (the non-terminal), which is a tautology since they would otherwise be part of other (the terminal) which is part of Other. This doesn’t technically cause any problems but it is probably accidental that it still exists and makes it seem like a poor choice for an example. The paragraph also says that “The tokenizer operates on a sequence of Unicode characters [UNICODE],” which seems like it should probably say Unicode scalar values (since elsewhere it is taken for granted that the string value of a string terminal contains only USVs).

Those things are unrelated but the density of curious / slightly off things in one paragraph suggests that maybe the whole paragraph should get an overhaul?

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