[Bug]: Unexpected error thrown when parsing broken template literal

[fisker]

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• Would you like to work on a fix?

How are you using Babel?

Programmatic API (babel.transform, babel.parse)

Input code

require('@babel/parser').parse('`\\u{prettier}`', {tokens: true, errorRecovery:true})

Configuration file name

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Configuration

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Current and expected behavior

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'charCodeAt')
    at babel7CompatTokens (<CWD>\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:13359:21)
    at Parser.parseTopLevel (<CWD>\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:13430:44)
    at Parser.parse (<CWD>\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:15202:10)
    at Object.parse (<CWD>\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:15254:38)

Environment

• Babel v7.16.5

Possible solution

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Additional context

This only happens, when {tokens: true, errorRecovery:true}

 require('@babel/parser').parse('`\\u{prettier}`', {errorRecovery:true})
Node {
  type: 'File',
  start: 0,
  end: 14,
  loc: SourceLocation {
    start: Position { line: 1, column: 0 },
    end: Position { line: 1, column: 14 },
    filename: undefined,
    identifierName: undefined
  },
  errors: [
    SyntaxError: Invalid escape sequence in template. (1:2)
 ...

 require('@babel/parser').parse('`\\u{prettier}`', {tokens: true})
Uncaught [SyntaxError: Invalid escape sequence in template. (1:2)
] {
  loc: Position { line: 1, column: 2 },
  pos: 2,
  code: 'BABEL_PARSER_SYNTAX_ERROR',
  reasonCode: 'InvalidEscapeSequenceTemplate'
}

I believe this caused by #13919 @JLHwung

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