The character at the beginning of the string isn't a corrupt ':', it is a
Unicode control character '\uFDD0' which seems to be output as an internal
detail so that clojurescript can distinguish keywords and strings.
The clojurescript compiler outputs javascript as utf-8.
So technically, everythin
I've encountered this problem too, on Ubuntu 11.04 with Emacs 23.2.1
and the ClojureScript repo cloned with Git 1.7.4.1.
For me, using a meta tag doesn't resolve the problem though. Without a
meta tag that sets the encoding to UTF-8, an i with two dots above it
is diplayed. With the meta tag added
I'm seeing non-utf8 characters in my compiled .js even though my .cljs
source file is utf8. Here's a very short example demonstrating the
issue:
https://gist.github.com/1116419
Notice that the colon at the start of :foo is being munged during
compilation.
This causes errors when the .js is execu
