These may be used in CHARENCODING
with the /X
option.
Escape: | Expands to: | Example: |
---|---|---|
\b | backspace | |
\e | ASCII escape (27 decimal) | |
\k | grave accent | |
\n | newline | |
\p | percent sign | |
\q | double quote | |
\r | carriage return | |
\t | ASCII horizontal tab | |
\u xxxx | Unicode character, up to U+FFFF | \u03a3 → Σ |
\U xxxxxxxx | Unicode character, up to U+10FFFF | \U1f63a → 😺 |
\ nnn | octal value, up to 777 | \101 → A |
\x nnnn | hexadecimal value, up to FFFF | \x41 → A |
\# nnnnn | decimal value, up to 65535 | \#65 → A |
\\ | backslash |