From 36aab0f4b2a05a1ae4c8603e57b4c3c684fe8ea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim 'mithro' Ansell <me@mith.ro>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 15:00:55 -0800
Subject: Complete python escape sequences aware strings

Fixes #3169
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 docs/markdown/Syntax.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'docs/markdown/Syntax.md')

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md
index 1005100..01c8c6e 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md
@@ -90,8 +90,24 @@ single quote do it like this:
 single quote = 'contains a \' character'
 ```
 
-Similarly `\n` gets converted to a newline and `\\` to a single
-backslash.
+The full list of escape sequences is:
+
+* `\\` Backslash
+* `\'` Single quote
+* `\a` Bell
+* `\b` Backspace
+* `\f` Formfeed
+* `\n` Newline
+* `\r` Carriage Return
+* `\t` Horizontal Tab
+* `\v` Vertical Tab
+* `\ooo` Character with octal value ooo
+* `\xhh` Character with hex value hh
+* `\uxxxx` Character with 16-bit hex value xxxx
+* `\Uxxxxxxxx` Character with 32-bit hex value xxxxxxxx
+* `\N{name}` Character named name in Unicode database
+
+As in python and C, up to three octal digits are accepted in `\ooo`.
 
 #### String concatenation
 
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