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ANSI Common Lisp 13 Characters 13.1 Character Concepts

13.1.7 Character Names

The following character names must be present in all conforming implementations:

• Newline
  The character that represents the division between lines. An implementation must translate between #\Newline, a single-character representation, and whatever external representation(s) may be used.
• Space
  The space or blank character.

The following names are semi-standard; if an implementation supports them, they should be used for the described characters and no others.

• Rubout
  The rubout or delete character.
• Page
  The form-feed or page-separator character.
• Tab
  The tabulate character.
• Backspace
  The backspace character.
• Return
  The carriage return character.
• Linefeed
  The line-feed character.

In some implementations, one or more of these character _names_might denote a standard character; for example,#\Linefeed and #\Newline might be the same _character_in some implementations.