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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> That's what I mean. Only identifier letters, digits, spaces and
> 
> "Any character of the ISO 10646 BMP that is not reserved for a control
> function, and is not the space_character, an identifier_letter, or a digit"
> 
> are allowed. Actually it is not different from escape sequences of C,
> except that once escaped you won't get back without a compile error.

However, any value of Character can be in a Value of type String, and 
none of them have any special significance in the language. That's the 
context that I was replying in.

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Jeff Carter
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