Going back to normal mode from visual mode in a function

Hi,

At one point in a vim script function I'm writing, the system will be
in visual mode and I want it to go back out of visual mode to normal
mode.

I know it doesn't really work to use something like 'normal! v'
because if the visual mode it stared in was 'V' then that command will
just change it to a character-based selection rather than going back
to normal mode.

If I use

normal! <ESC>

that's treated as just typing '<' 'E' 'S' 'C' '>'

so I thought I could use this:

normal! ^[

(which I've entered by typing 'normal ' and then pressing CTRL-Q
then <ESC>. I'm doing this on a windows machine, so on other
systems you'd be typing CTRL-V instead of CTRL-Q).

and I /thought/ this was working the other day, but now when I try
using it, it keeps giving me this error:

E471: Argument required: normal!

I also tried using

normal! ^C

(i.e using CTRL-Q CTRL-C)

but when I copy the text of the function and do @" it says there's a
missing endfunction... so I'm guessing that the ^C is being
interpreted as if I had actually pressed CTRL-C in the middle of
typing in the function on the ex-line...

so I'm wondering, what (preferably non-hack-like) means can I use in a
function to get out of visual
mode and return to normal mode? I figure there must be some means of
escaping or specifying a <ESC> key-press that I don't know about.

Thanks,
James.

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