Re: Regular expression /\d/ matches "digits" other than [0-9]

Igor Tandetnik wrote:
> /\d/.test("\uFF11")
> 
> returns true. U+FF11 is FULLWIDTH DIGIT ONE, and happens to have Unicode 
> class Nd (decimal number). However, Ecma-262 (the standard for 
> EcmaScript aka JavaScript) explicitly states:
> 
> 15.10.2.12 CharacterClassEscape
> The production CharacterClassEscape :: d evaluates by returning the 
> ten-element set of characters containing the characters 0 through 9 
> inclusive.
> 
> So accepting "digits" other than [0-9] appears to be a bug. Am I missing 
> something obvious?

Looks like a long standing bug in Spidermonkey. Rhino gives false for 
that example.
I have filed <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378738>.




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