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#### 3.6.1.2 Characters

A single character may be written as a single quote immediately followed by that character. Some backslash escapes apply to characters, `\b`, `\f`, `\n`, `\r`, `\t`, and `\"` with the same meaning as for strings, plus `\'` for a single quote. So if you want to write the character backslash, you must write `'\\` where the first `\` escapes the second `\`. As you can see, the quote is an acute accent, not a grave accent. A newline immediately following an acute accent is taken as a literal character and does not count as the end of a statement. The value of a character constant in a numeric expression is the machine’s byte-wide code for that character. `as` assumes your character code is ASCII: `'A` means 65, `'B` means 66, and so on.