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[lex.string,dcl.init.string] Use 'code unit' for initialization from a string-literal #5118

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9 changes: 4 additions & 5 deletions source/declarations.tex
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UTF-32 string literal, or
wide string literal,
respectively, or by an appropriately-typed \grammarterm{string-literal} enclosed in
braces\iref{lex.string}.
braces.
\indextext{initialization!character array}%
Successive
characters of the
value of the \grammarterm{string-literal}
initialize the elements of the array.
The elements of the array are initialized
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@jensmaurer Please look at this comment. values of the sequence of code unit values sounds a bit vague; what value is that?

with successive values of the sequence of code unit values
represented by the \grammarterm{string-literal}\iref{lex.string}.
\begin{example}
\begin{codeblock}
char msg[] = "Syntax error on line %s\n";
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\indextext{\idxcode{0}|seealso{zero, null}}%
\indextext{\idxcode{0}!string terminator}%
\indextext{\idxcode{0}!null character|see {character, null}}%
String literal objects are initialized with
A string literal object is initialized with
the sequence of code unit values
corresponding to the \grammarterm{string-literal}'s sequence of
represented by the \grammarterm{string-literal}.
A \grammarterm{string-literal} represents
a sequence of code unit values corresponding to the sequence of
\grammarterm{s-char}s (originally from non-raw string literals) and
\grammarterm{r-char}s (originally from raw string literals),
plus a terminating \unicode{0000}{null} character,
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