5 Lexical conventions [lex]

5.13 Literals [lex.literal]

5.13.3 Character literals [lex.ccon]

Table 10: Simple escape sequences [tab:lex.ccon.esc]
character
U+000a
line feed
\n
U+0009
character tabulation
\t
U+000b
line tabulation
\v
U+0008
backspace
\b
U+000d
carriage return
\r
U+000c
form feed
\f
U+0007
alert
\a
U+005c
reverse solidus
\\
U+003f
question mark
\?
U+0027
apostrophe
\'
U+0022
quotation mark
\"