IE's toLocaleString has strange characters in results

Question

I\'ve run into a super strange thing that apparently is IE-specific in toLocaleString on dates.

In the IE console window:

new Date(\"201         


        

Answer 1

Please look at http://jsbin.com/mehowehase/1/edit?html,js,console

var dt = new Date();
var x = dt.toLocaleDateString();
console.log("length : "+x.length);
var arr = x.split("/");
console.log("month : "+parseInt(arr[0],10));

In the above the length of x is 14 in IE but 9 in other browsers. This supports John's comment that IE is adding left-to-right marks. This definitely looks like a bug to me.