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3 Terms and definitions [intro.defs]

3.9[defns.character]character

⟨library⟩ object which, when treated sequentially, can represent text

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The term does not mean onlychar,char8_t,char16_t,char32_t, andwchar_tobjects ([basic.fundamental]), but any value that can be represented by a type that provides the definitions specified in[strings], [localization], [input.output], or [re].

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