{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6521","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6521/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6521/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6521/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6521","id":127109744,"number":6521,"title":"Broken unicode symbol after minification","user":{"login":"tandu","id":273313,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/273313?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu","html_url":"https://github.com/tandu","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tandu/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":18,"created_at":"2016-01-17T17:26:50Z","updated_at":"2016-01-17T21:04:28Z","closed_at":null,"body":"```css\r\nsmile:before {\r\n  content: \"\\200B\";\r\n}\r\n```\r\nIs compressed to\r\n```css\r\nsmile:before {\r\n  content: \"200B\";\r\n}\r\n```\r\nhttps://github.com/mgechev/angular2-seed/issues/390"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/comments/172382243","html_url":"https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6521#issuecomment-172382243","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6521","id":172382243,"user":{"login":"vladima","id":8052307,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8052307?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima","html_url":"https://github.com/vladima","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vladima/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-17T21:04:27Z","updated_at":"2016-01-17T21:04:27Z","body":"as I understand originally it appear when `\\200B` had appeared in string template?\r\n```ts\r\n@Component({\r\n  template: '',\r\n  styles: [`\r\n    smile:before {\r\n      content: \"\\200B\";\r\n    }\r\n  `]\r\n})\r\nclass SampleComponent {}\r\n```\r\nif yes then from my reading of the ES6 spec seem that `\\2` is illegal sequence of characters for string templates so TypeScript compiler should show an error \r\n\r\n[TemplateCharacter](https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#prod-TemplateCharacter)\r\n>TemplateCharacter::\r\n  $[lookahead ≠ {]\r\n  **\\EscapeSequence**\r\n  LineContinuation\r\n  LineTerminatorSequence\r\n  SourceCharacterbut not one of ` or \\ or $ or LineTerminator\r\n\r\n[EscapeSequence](https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#prod-EscapeSequence)\r\n>EscapeSequence::\r\n  **CharacterEscapeSequence**\r\n  0[lookahead ∉ DecimalDigit]\r\n  HexEscapeSequence\r\n  UnicodeEscapeSequence\r\n\r\n[CharacterEscapeSequence](https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#prod-CharacterEscapeSequence)\r\n>CharacterEscapeSequence::\r\nSingleEscapeCharacter\r\n**NonEscapeCharacter**\r\n\r\n\r\n>SingleEscapeCharacter::one of\r\n'\"\\bfnrtv\r\n\r\n\r\n>NonEscapeCharacter::\r\nSourceCharacter but **not one of EscapeCharacter** or LineTerminator\r\n\r\n\r\n>EscapeCharacter::\r\nSingleEscapeCharacter\r\n**DecimalDigit**\r\nx\r\nu"}}