> So yeah, solution is to make characters easier to type, not modify the 
> language.

+1

> If like me you don't have such a keyboard, you can always use ctrl+⌘+<space> 
> and type ‘PRIME’ to find it, then pick it from recently used/favourites.
> Regarding the other point, I agree that character literals would be handy, 
> but again I’m not sure if apostrophe is the right character to indicate it. 
> Although it is familiar, perhaps LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK and RIGHT SINGLE 
> QUOTATION MARK would be better, they can be relatively easily typed with ⎇+] 
> and ⎇+⇧+] respectively. Xcode could also convert two apostrophes into ‘’ for 
> you and your fingers would quickly learn to type ' ' ← ‹char›.
> 

I think the single (ASCII) quote is standard enough for use as a character 
delimiter.
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