[Mono-bugs] [Bug 78259][Wis] New - mcs doesn't honor c#'s definition of allowed identifier chars

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Changed by dwashington at gmx.net.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=78259

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+Bug#: 78259
+Product: Mono: Compilers
+Version: 1.1
+OS: 
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Wishlist
+Component: C#
+AssignedTo: rharinath at novell.com                            
+ReportedBy: dwashington at gmx.net               
+QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: mcs doesn't honor c#'s definition of allowed identifier chars
+
+Description of Problem:
+The C# Specification, 2nd Edition's definition of indentifiers and the
+implementation in Mono's C# compiler don't match. The spec allows "A
+Unicode character of the class Pc" as part of an identifier. But mcs only
+allows the fullwidth low line ("_"). The compiler also doesn't seem to
+handle other allowed characters in identifiers, like characters of the
+classes Mn, Mc and Cf.
+
+Steps to reproduce the problem:
+1. Enter following code into an editor:
+
+using System;
+
+namespace Bla.Blub
+{
+
+	class Foo
+	{
+		public static void Main(string[] args)
+		{
+			Console.WriteLine("bla");
+		}
+	}
+
+}
+
+2. Put the undertie character (U+203F) somewhere in one of the identifiers
+"Foo", "Bla", or "Blub"
+3. Compile the program
+
+Actual Results:
+A parsing error (CS8025).
+
+Expected Results:
+Compilation without problems.
+
+How often does this happen? 
+Always.
+
+Additional Information:
+
+The method for checking for a valid identifier char s defined as follows
+(in cs-tokenizer.cs):
+
+static bool is_identifier_part_character (char c)
+{
+    return (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') || c == '_' ||
+(c >= '0' && c <= '9') || Char.IsLetter (c);
+}
+
+This doesn't allow many of the characters that the c# specification allows.
+It is clearly visible that the undertie for instance is not accepted,
+though allowed by the standard.