diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 29efbed34761d..12f99598aabcd 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Library improvements
 
   * `notify` now returns a count of tasks woken up ([#19841]).
 
+  * New nonstandard string literal `raw"..."` for creating strings
+    with no interpolation or unescaping ([#19900]).
+
   * A new `Dates.Time` type was added that supports representing the time of day with up to nanosecond resolution ([#12274]).
 
   * New `@macroexpand` macro as a convenient alternative to the `macroexpand` function ([#18660]).
@@ -358,6 +361,7 @@ Deprecated or removed
 [#19787]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19787
 [#19800]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19800
 [#19841]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19841
+[#19900]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19900
 [#19903]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19903
 [#19919]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19919
 [#19944]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19944
diff --git a/doc/src/manual/strings.md b/doc/src/manual/strings.md
index 66ded3d982b04..f04f55b65f594 100644
--- a/doc/src/manual/strings.md
+++ b/doc/src/manual/strings.md
@@ -885,7 +885,9 @@ in the `Pkg` module, to specify packages versions and their dependencies.
 ## [Raw String Literals](@id man-raw-string-literals)
 
 Raw strings without interpolation or unescaping can be expressed with
-non-standard string literals of the form `raw"..."`. Raw string literals
-create ordinary `String` objects which contain the enclosed contents exactly
-as entered with no interpolation or unescaping. This is useful for strings which
-contain code or markup in other languages which use `$` or `\` as special characters.
+non-standard string literals of the form `raw"..."`. Raw string literals create
+ordinary `String` objects which contain the enclosed contents exactly as
+entered with no interpolation or unescaping. This is useful for strings which
+contain code or markup in other languages which use `$` or `\` as special
+characters. The exception is quotation marks that still must be
+escaped, e.g. `raw"\""` is equivalent to `"\""`.