# SE-0243: Codepoint and Character Literals

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/21188>\
**Category:** Proposal Reviews\
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/21188 "2019-03-04T15:45:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 204

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![xwu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b487fb/32.png) [@xwu](https://forums.swift.org/u/xwu)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/21188/204 "2019-03-10T20:17:15Z")

</div>

> [@johnno1962](#):
>
> Is this the right answer? I’m no longer sure...

My point is, there is no right answer. That's why any `asciiValue` API on `Character` is arguably fundamentally broken.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0243-codepoint-and-character-literals/21188)._