Is \u006eew a valid Identifier?

Waldemar Horwat waldemar at google.com
Wed Nov 11 01:47:46 UTC 2015


On 11/09/2015 10:10, Isiah Meadows wrote:
> Is there a reason why escapes like that in the title shouldn't evaluate to keywords? To be honest, it's bad style, but I don't get how it would be breaking the Web.

Yes.  We did it for the same reason that 0xC1 0xA2 is not a valid UTF-8 encoding of 'b'.  Having multiple ways to encode keywords causes trouble.

     Waldemar



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