Last modified: 2014-10-01 12:50:36 UTC
This [1] revision of the gadget Twinkle on hi-wp gave the browser exception: Exception thrown by ext.gadget.Twinkle: JavaScript parse error: Parse error: Illegal token in file 'MediaWiki:Gadget-Twinkle.js' on line 3757 In the next revision [2] of Twinkle, the problem was not there. The only change made to resolve this were that object property names starting with devanagari characters were put into quotes. E.g.: शीह: "विशिष्ट कारण ({{शीह}})", was changed to "शीह": "विशिष्ट कारण ({{शीह}})", Although this has gotten twinkle up and running, I don't see why RL generated the exception in the first place. Devanagari characters are already specified in Unicode 3.0 and hence are good for starting property names as per ECMA-262(if I read the standard correctly). Further details may be found in [3]. [1]: http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF:Gadget-Twinkle.js&oldid=2175350 [2]: http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF:Gadget-Twinkle.js&oldid=2176139 [3]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51361#c3
As far as I can see from [1], [2] and [3], this shouldn't be happening. [1]: Bug 31187 [2]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/98281 [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/98285
As you write "no longer", any idea when using quotes still worked?
Well, I know that TW still worked back in February 13. This diff [1] was by TW on 24 Feb. Its the newest I could find before it broke. I think its probably got something to do with the jsmin+ unicode fix not working properly. [1]: http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A7&diff=prev&oldid=2090806
