Cussedness
The natural cussedness of things in general.
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JavaScript and UTF-8 in Eclipse
For some reason the usually excellent Eclipse IDE sets the default encoding of JavaScript files to ISO-8859-1, which is pretty much wrong and can be problematic. The correct path to configuring things so that they are right is rather non-obvious; Google failed me in the quest to fix things this time. It’s a small but irritating problem, and apparently I’m not alone in seeking an answer, so I’m posting my solution up here for future reference and for any other frustrated Eclipse JavaScripters that might be out there. (more…)