Allow symbol and label names to be enclosed in double quotes.

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@@ -2740,10 +2740,15 @@ On most machines, you can also use @code{$} in symbol names; exceptions
 are noted in @ref{Machine Dependencies}.
 @end ifset
 No symbol may begin with a digit.  Case is significant.
-There is no length limit: all characters are significant.  Multibyte characters
+There is no length limit; all characters are significant.  Multibyte characters
 are supported.  Symbols are delimited by characters not in that set, or by the
 beginning of a file (since the source program must end with a newline, the end
 of a file is not a possible symbol delimiter).  @xref{Symbols}.
+
+Symbol names may also be enclosed in double quote @code{"} characters.  In such
+cases any characters are allowed, except for the NUL character.  If a double
+quote character is to be included in the symbol name it must be preceeded by a
+backslash @code{\} character.
 @cindex length of symbols
 
 @node Statements