in particular those above <code>0x10FFFF</code> and surrogate halves.
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<p>
After a backslash, certain single-character escapes represent special values:
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<pre class="grammar">
\a   U+0007 alert or bell
\b   U+0008 backspace
\f   U+000C form feed
\n   U+000A line feed or newline
\r   U+000D carriage return
\t   U+0009 horizontal tab
\v   U+000B vertical tab
\\   U+005C backslash