Template:cpp/language/multichar-literal-note

Multicharacter were inherited by C from the B programming language. Although not specified by the C standard, most compilers (MSVC is a notable exception) implement multicharacter  as specified in B: the values of each char in the  initialize successive bytes of the resulting integer, in big-endian zero-padded right-adjusted order, e.g. the value of  is  and the value of  is.