Single-Byte Characters

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Single-Byte Characters

This manual represents single-byte characters as a series of lowercase letters. The format for representing one single-byte character abstractly is:

Here a stands for any single-byte character, not for the letter "a" itself.

The format for representing a string of single-byte characters is as follows:

a...z

Here a stands for the first character and z stands for the last character in the string. For example, if the string Ludwig consists of six single-byte characters, the following format represents this 6-character string abstractly:

abcdef

Tip:

The letter "s" does not appear in examples that represent strings of single-byte characters. The manual reserves the letter "s" as a symbol to represent a single-byte whitespace character. See also Whitespace Characters in Strings.