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tab character
subject			fact

tab character	is a subtopic of Literals
	is an instance of char
	is an instance of character literal
	is denoted by ' '
char	can be used in a switch statement because a char is an integral type
	can use basic arithmetic operators +, -, *, / and %
	contains 2 bytes
	has size 2 bytes
	see also Character class
character literal	can be any single Unicode character
	has example 'A'
value	if a value is assigned to a variable then the value must have the same type as the variable or the value must have a type that is a subtype of the variable's type
	has a format
	has a size in bytes
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional