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+// Copyright (C) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+// This code is governed by the BSD license found in the LICENSE file.
+/*---
+esid: sec-escape-string
+es6id: B.2.1.1
+description: Escaping of code units above 255 from string with extended Unicode escape sequence
+info: |
+    [...]
+    5. Repeat, while k < length,
+       a. Let char be the code unit (represented as a 16-bit unsigned integer)
+          at index k within string.
+       [...]
+       c. Else if char ≥ 256, then
+          i. Let S be a String containing six code units "%uwxyz" where wxyz
+             are the code units of the four uppercase hexadecimal digits
+             encoding the value of char.
+       [...]
+---*/
+
+assert.sameValue(
+  escape('\u{10401}'), '%uD801%uDC01', '\\u{10401} => \\uD801\\uDC01 (surrogate pairs encoded in string)'
+);