Bug#555088: spidermonkey-bin: erroniously signals "illegal character" in interactive mode

[Bernhard Schulte]

Package: spidermonkey-bin
Version: 1.9.0.15-0lenny1
Severity: important

Consider this example input in interactive mode:

var text = "some text";
print(text);
will generate an "illegal character" error beginning with line 2.
After that any line you enter generates the same error.

Running an equivalent script from file with the -f switch will not generate an
error.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages spidermonkey-bin depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.7-18           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmozjs1d              1.9.0.15-0lenny1 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii  libnspr4-0d             4.7.1-4          NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libreadline5            5.2-3.1          GNU readline and history libraries

spidermonkey-bin recommends no packages.

spidermonkey-bin suggests no packages.

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