diff --git a/specsuite/tests/expressions/primitive_literals.hcl b/specsuite/tests/expressions/primitive_literals.hcl
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+# Numbers
+whole_number                = 5
+fractional_number           = 3.2
+fractional_number_precision = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459
+
+# Strings
+string_ascii           = "hello"
+string_unicode_bmp     = "ЖЖ"
+string_unicode_astral  = "👩‍👩‍👧‍👦"
+string_unicode_nonnorm = "años" # This is intentionally a combining tilde followed by n
+
+# Booleans
+true  = true
+false = false
+
+# Null
+null = null
diff --git a/specsuite/tests/expressions/primitive_literals.hcldec b/specsuite/tests/expressions/primitive_literals.hcldec
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+object {
+  attr "whole_number" { type = any }
+  attr "fractional_number" { type = any }
+  attr "fractional_number_precision" { type = any }
+  attr "string_ascii" { type = any }
+  attr "string_unicode_bmp" { type = any }
+  attr "string_unicode_astral" { type = any }
+  attr "string_unicode_nonnorm" { type = any }
+  attr "true" { type = any }
+  attr "false" { type = any }
+  attr "null" { type = any }
+}
diff --git a/specsuite/tests/expressions/primitive_literals.t b/specsuite/tests/expressions/primitive_literals.t
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+result_type = object({
+  whole_number                = number
+  fractional_number           = number
+  fractional_number_precision = number
+  string_ascii                = string
+  string_unicode_bmp          = string
+  string_unicode_astral       = string
+  string_unicode_nonnorm      = string
+  true                        = bool
+  false                       = bool
+  null                        = any
+})
+result = {
+  # Numbers
+  whole_number                = 5
+  fractional_number           = 3.2
+  fractional_number_precision = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459
+
+  # Strings
+  string_ascii = "hello"
+  string_unicode_bmp = "ЖЖ"
+  string_unicode_astral = "👩‍👩‍👧‍👦"
+  string_unicode_nonnorm = "años" # now a precomposed ñ, because HCL imposes NFC normalization
+  # FIXME: The above normalization test doesn't necessarily test what it thinks
+  # it is testing, because this file is also HCL and thus subject to
+  # normalization; as long as the parser normalizes consistently this could
+  # pass even if it's using a different normalization form.
+
+  # The left hand side of these are quoted to make it clear that we're expecting
+  # to get strings here, not really true/false/null.
+  "true"  = true
+  "false" = false
+  "null"  = null
+}