5 Lexical conventions [lex]

5.13 Literals [lex.literal]

5.13.3 Character literals [lex.ccon]

Table 9: Character literals [tab:lex.ccon.literal]

🔗	Encoding	Kind	Type	Associated char-	Example
🔗	prefix			acter encoding
🔗	none	ordinary character literal	char	ordinary literal	'v'
🔗		multicharacter literal	int	encoding	'abcd'
🔗	L	wide character literal	wchar_t	wide literal	L'w'
🔗				encoding
🔗	u8	UTF-8 character literal	char8_t	UTF-8	u8'x'
🔗	u	UTF-16 character literal	char16_t	UTF-16	u'y'
🔗	U	UTF-32 character literal	char32_t	UTF-32	U'z'