Parsing of octal string escapes is broken

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    • Type: Sub-task
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: P4
    • 8
    • Affects Version/s: 8
    • Component/s: core-libs
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    • b96
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      Length of octal escapes in strings should be 2 or 3 characters depending on whether the first digit is greater than 3.

      "\471".charCodeAt(0)
      => should return 39 instead of 313

      "\377".length
      => should be 1

      "\400".length
      => should be 2

            Assignee:
            Hannes Wallnoefer
            Reporter:
            Hannes Wallnoefer
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