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 + happy☺n☺mat☺p☺eia + ಠ_ಠ);
For some reason, though, ◎ܫ◎
, ♨_♨
and ☺
are not valid variable names.
Why do ಠ_ಠ
and 草泥马
work, but ◎ܫ◎
, ♨_♨
and ☺
don't?
EDIT: Test it out in your browser on JSFiddle. I've tested it in Internet Explorer 9, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. So far, it seems to only work in Internet Explorer 9. (I don't know about Internet Explorer 8 and below.) Let me know if it works in another browser.
ಠ_ಠ
. – Bojanglesಠ_ಠ
face...it'd be perfectly descriptive in those cases.... – David says reinstate Monica€
as a var name because its worth more than the$
– gnarf