 
 
 (defvar scala-font-lock-syntactic-keywords
-  '((scala-search-special-identifier-forward (0 "w" nil t))))
+  `((,scala-char-re (0 "\"" t nil))
+    (scala-search-special-identifier-forward (0 "w" nil nil))))
 
 ;; Bug reporting
 

  "Regular expression matching a Scala string literal.")

(defconst scala-char-re
  "'\\([^'\\\\]\\|\\\\.\\)*\'"
  "Regular expression matching a Scala character literal.")

(defconst scala-literal-re


;; strings and character literals
(modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"" scala-mode-syntax-table)
(modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "\\" scala-mode-syntax-table)

;; different kinds of "parenthesis"
