title: Javascript: Invalid Unicode escape sequence while storing accessing unicode
body: <p>I am setting <code>Fontawesome</code> Icon codes in <code>SELECT</code> box and accessing on <code>change</code> event. On accessing I am getting error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Invalid Unicode escape sequence
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Code given below:</p>
  
  <p><strong>HTML</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="faicons" id="faicons" class="form-control selectpicker"&gt;
      &lt;option value="0"&gt;Select&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="uF26E" class="fa fa-500px"&gt; 500px&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="uF26E" class="fa fa-linkedin"&gt; LinkedIn&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Javascript</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>function renderIcon(code) {
      var context = null;
      code = "F26E"
      var icon_code = "\u"+code;
      context = main_canvas.getContext('2d');
      context.font='32px FontAwesome';
      context.fillText(icon_code,20,75);
      context.fillText("My TEXT!", 140, 90);
  }
  </code></pre>