Improve the definition of "encoding".

Fixes https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19979
whatwg · Nov 16, 2012 · 088780d · 088780d
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diff --git a/Overview.html b/Overview.html
@@ -170,9 +170,9 @@ <h2 id="terminology"><span class="secno">3 </span>Terminology</h2>
 
 <h2 id="encodings"><span class="secno">4 </span>Encodings</h2>
 
-<p>An <dfn id="encoding">encoding</dfn> defines a mapping from a code point to one or more
-bytes (and vice versa). Each <a href="#encoding">encoding</a> has a <dfn id="name">name</dfn>,
-and one or more <dfn id="label" title="label">labels</dfn>.
+<p>An <dfn id="encoding">encoding</dfn> defines a mapping from a code point sequence to a
+byte sequence (and vice versa). Each <a href="#encoding">encoding</a> has a
+<dfn id="name">name</dfn>, and one or more <dfn id="label" title="label">labels</dfn>.
 
 <p>Each <a href="#encoding">encoding</a> also has a <dfn id="decoder">decoder</dfn> and
 <dfn id="encoder">encoder</dfn> algorithm.

diff --git a/Overview.src.html b/Overview.src.html
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ <h2>Terminology</h2>
 
 <h2>Encodings</h2>
 
-<p>An <dfn>encoding</dfn> defines a mapping from a code point to one or more
-bytes (and vice versa). Each <span>encoding</span> has a <dfn>name</dfn>,
-and one or more <dfn title=label>labels</dfn>.
+<p>An <dfn>encoding</dfn> defines a mapping from a code point sequence to a
+byte sequence (and vice versa). Each <span>encoding</span> has a
+<dfn>name</dfn>, and one or more <dfn title=label>labels</dfn>.
 
 <p>Each <span>encoding</span> also has a <dfn>decoder</dfn> and
 <dfn>encoder</dfn> algorithm.