Single Escape Character (ANSI and GNU Common Lisp Document)

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#### 2.1.4.7 Single Escape Character

A single escape is used to indicate that the next character is to be treated as an alphabetic_2 character with its case preserved, no matter what the character is or which constituent traits it has.

Slash is a single escape character in standard syntax.