Tom Honermann:
> I'm not following. std::to_integer is (currently, unless I missed a
> proposal) only overloaded to provide the value of a std::byte as an
> integral type. I don't understand the motivation here, nor the
> association with the char8_t remediation paper.
>
> Tom.
>

This paper makes std::cout << u8'x' ill-formed. I suggest to use
std::to_integer to make it well-formed again.