Details
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Type:
Defect
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Status:
Resolved
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Completed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
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Environment:Clojurescript HEAD, tested ond IE7 and IE8
Description
Internet Explorer treats \uFDD0 up to \uFDEF as equal. e.g. '(= \uFDD0 \uFDD1)' returns true.
Therefore e.g. '(symbol? :whatever)', '(symbol? (keyword "whatever"))' and so on return true which obviously shouldn't happen.
Further on read-string does not correctly unmarshal keywords because of that issue.
Using pr-str on that unicode range returns ":" for all codes.
All other non IE Browsers I've tested (Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, Opera, iOS BRowser, etc...) do not expose this problem and work as expected.
Some context: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5188679/whats-the-purpose-of-the-noncharacters-ufdd0-to-ufdef