I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).
That might explain that:
In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.
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Every syntax highligher shows this and VSCode even has a special case for this, this is not a real issue.
I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).
That might explain that:
Can you expect much else from someone who uses JS?