Closed Bug 1208842 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

some characters are not allowed in variable names even if ES6 allows them

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(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

42 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 917436

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(Reporter: m93a.cz, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Build ID: 20150921004016 Steps to reproduce: Open a JavaScript console, type "var
It seems the character has also broken Bugzilla. The thing is that double struck characters http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/double-struck.html are interpreted as invalid in variable names even though ES6 allows for them. See JavaScript Variable Name Validator https://mothereff.in/js-variables#%F0%9D%94%B8 for more info.
Component: Untriaged → JavaScript Engine
Product: Firefox → Core
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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