http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:support_full_unicode_in_strings#unicode_escape_sequences
states:
> To address this issue, a new form ofUnicodeEscapeSequence is added that is
> explicitly tagged as containing var variable number (up to 8) of hex digits.
> The new definition is:
>
> UnicodeEscapeSequence ::
> u HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit HexDigit
> u{ HexDigit
> HexDigitopt HexDigitopt HexDigitopt HexDigitopt HexDigitopt HexDigitopt HexDigitopt }
>
> The \u{ } extended UnicodeEscapeSequence is a syntactic extension that is
> only recognized after explicit versioning opt-in to the extended “Harmony”
> syntax.
Why up to 8 hex digits? Shouldn’t 6 hex digits suffice to represent
every possible Unicode character (in the range from 0x0 to 0x10ffff)?
Is this a typo or was this done intentionally to be future-compatible
with potential Unicode additions?
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