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The appearance of either of the characters ' or \ or of either of the character sequences or in aq-char-sequence or an h-char-sequenceis conditionally-supported with implementation-defined semantics, as is the appearance of the character" in an h-char-sequence.
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Thus, a sequence of characters that resembles an escape sequence can result in an error, be interpreted as the character corresponding to the escape sequence, or have a completely different meaning, depending on the implementation.
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