一个关于C语言的问题

'\87'为什么在C++中不合法啊 它是一个常量的表示吗

我记得好像得用八进制或者十六进制。用十进制不行的哦


C Character Constants 
A “character constantis formed by enclosing a single character from the representable character set within single quotation marks (' '). Character constants are used to represent characters in the execution character set.

Syntax

character-constant :

'c-char-sequence'
L'c-char-sequence'

c-char-sequence :

c-char
c-char-sequence c-char

c-char :

Any member of the source character set except the single quotation mark ('), backslash (\), or newline character 
escape-sequence

escape-sequence :

simple-escape-sequence
octal-escape-sequence
hexadecimal-escape-sequence

simple-escape-sequence : one of

\a  \b  \f  \n  \r  \t  \v
\'  \"  \\  \? 

octal-escape-sequence :

\ octal-digit
\ octal-digit octal-digit
\ octal-digit octal-digit octal-digit

hexadecimal-escape-sequence :

\x hexadecimal-digit
hexadecimal-escape-sequence hexadecimal-digit