A  character  literal  is  one  or  more characters enclosed in singlequotes, as in 'x', optionally preceded by the letter L, as in L'x'.  Acharacter  literal that does not begin with L is an ordinary characterliteral, also referred to as a narrow-character literal.  An  ordinarycharacter  literal  that  contains a single c-char has type char, withvalue equal to the numerical value of the encoding of  the  c-char  inthe  execution character set.  An ordinary character literal that con-tains more than one c-char is a multicharacter literal.  A  multichar-acter literal has type int and implementation-defined value.