Since my previous post, jQueryUI has updated as well as jQuery itself. The code is largely the same, but they did implement some of the usefulness that I proposed. Essentially, they added the ability to pass the name of the button as text, rather then as the key to a key->value pair object.

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When coding in JavaScript, as an english speaking citizen, unicode is rarely something that I think of. Recently though, I attempted to upgrade an Underscore package to version 1.3.3. This didn’t turn out as well as I hoped, I was immediately met with errors in the Javascript caused by using Closure Compiler in UTF charset mode. This could be avoided in the Underscore code, but it’s not entirely something they are to blame for. It has more to do with encoding a javascript file that has unicode literals in the code. When this is done, the u sequence becomes encoded and could possibly break your code, as I will demonstrate.

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