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@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ by an [escape sequence](#escape-sequences).
Note that `'\u000A'` is _not_ a valid character literal because
Unicode conversion is done before literal parsing and the Unicode
-character \\u000A (line feed) is not a printable
+character `\u000A` (line feed) is not a printable
character. One can use instead the escape sequence `'\n'` or
the octal escape `'\12'` ([see here](#escape-sequences)).
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ The following escape sequences are recognized in character and string literals.
A character with Unicode between 0 and 255 may also be represented by
-an octal escape, i.e. a backslash ‘\’ followed by a
+an octal escape, i.e. a backslash `'\'` followed by a
sequence of up to three octal characters.
It is a compile time error if a backslash character in a character or