Definition of characters reads as a sentence fragment instead of a sentence

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Definition of characters reads as a sentence fragment instead of a sentence #587

Open jdandrea opened 4 days ago

jdandrea commented 4 days ago

https://github.com/StyleGuides/WritingStyleGuide/blob/1604485f16a472b329a43551ba561ecd8b7416c4/en-US/C.xml#L98

Suggestion: Remove the reference to "one byte of storage" since UTF-8 and Unicode can involve multiple bytes.

Instead, consider changing the first sentence to "In computer software, a character is a symbol, such as a letter or number, that represents information." Source