2.5 Character Literals

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A character_literal is formed by enclosing a graphic character between two apostrophe characters.

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character_literal::= 'graphic_character'

     NOTES

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5  A character_literal is an enumeration literal of a character type. See 3.5.2.

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Examples of character literals:

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     'A'     '*'     '''     ' '
     'L'     '[Unicode 1051]
     '     '[Unicode 923]
     '    −− Various els.
     '[Unicode 8734]
     '     '[Unicode 1488]
     '            −− Big numbers − infinity and aleph.