# \[Rejected\] SE-0243: Codepoint and Character Literals

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/rejected-se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/22217>\
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**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/rejected-se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/22217 "2019-03-27T16:21:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/rejected-se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/22217/1 "2019-03-27T16:21:22Z")

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The review for SE-0243 has concluded and the proposal has been **rejected**.

> [@SE-0243: Codepoint and Character Literals](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/21188/341):
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> Revew Conclusion The review for SE-0243 has ended and the proposal has been rejected. To move forward on this topic, and to help the community converge on more of a consensus around these features, the core team recommends breaking this proposal out into two separate proposals that could be re-pitched and (depending on the pitch outcome) re-run. Introducing a single-quoted literal The core team supports the direction of adding single quotes for character and scalar literals to the language, …