Why can you increment characters in php

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In PHP you can increment a character like this:

$b = 'a'++;

What I am wondering is from a language stand point why does that work? Does php interpret a character just as an ASCII value so incrementing it would just make the ASCII value 1 higher which would be the next letter in the alphabet?

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