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authorchriseth <chris@ethereum.org>2016-08-05 14:47:52 +0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-08-05 14:47:52 +0800
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Merge pull request #666 from axic/feature/unicode-escape
Support unicode escape characters
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String Literals
---------------
-String Literals are written with double quotes (``"abc"``). As with integer literals, their type can vary, but they are implicitly convertible to ``bytes`` if they fit, to ``bytes`` and to ``string``.
+String Literals are written with double quotes (``"abc"``). As with integer literals, their type can vary, but they are implicitly convertible to ``bytes1``, ..., ``bytes32`` if they fit, to ``bytes`` and to ``string``.
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+String Literals support escape characters, such as ``\n``, ``\xNN`` and ``\uNNNN``. ``\xNN`` takes a hex value and inserts the appropriate byte, while ``\uNNNN`` takes a Unicode codepoint and inserts an UTF8 sequence.
.. index:: enum