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'