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Why aren’t ◎ܫ◎ and ☺ valid JavaScript variable names?

I noticed that in Internet Explorer (but, unfortunately, not in the other browsers I tested), you can use some Unicode variable names. This made my day, and I was absolutely delighted that I could write fun Unicode-laden code like this:

var ктоείναι草泥马 = "You dirty horse.", happy☺n☺mat☺p☺eia = ":)Yay!", ಠ_ಠ = "emoticon"; alert(ктоείναι草泥马 +…

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Why aren’t ◎ܫ◎ and ☺ valid JavaScript variable names?

I noticed that in Internet Explorer (but, unfortunately, not in the other browsers I tested), you can use some Unicode variable names. This made my day, and I was absolutely delighted that I could write fun Unicode-laden code like this:

var ктоείναι草泥马 = "You dirty horse.", happy☺n☺mat☺p☺eia = ":)Yay!", ಠ_ಠ = "emoticon"; alert(ктоείναι草泥马 +…