Why are these wierd characters being inserted in Facebook iframe when using jQuery? â€‹

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jQuery parses some html in my iframe app on Facebook, and when it does, I get tons of these characters:

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Please see screenshot for more info. Does anyone know why this occurring! and how to fix it?

Impossible to tell without code, but generally that kind of stuff is due to encoding issues. — Phillip Schmidt, Sep 26 '12 at 21:15
@PhillipSchmidt in the doctype declaration? Which code should i provide? — Andrew Samuelsen, Sep 26 '12 at 21:15
You were right. I cleaned up the top of the doc with encoding info and it works. — Andrew Samuelsen, Sep 26 '12 at 21:21
I added an answer so you can accept if it fixed your problem :) — Phillip Schmidt, Sep 26 '12 at 21:25

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '12 at 21:24

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It's an encoding issue, probably. You'll probably want to define the charset. Like this:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

answered Sep 26 '12 at 21:24

Phillip Schmidt

I also found it could be down to the file itself, or the text/characters within the file. My solution was to copy the code block by block into a fresh new file. Try doing Plain Text copy (Or use Terminal/Notepad) to be on the safe side. The issue then disappeared for me. My related issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31427080/why-is-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC-or-8203-being-inserted-into-my-html-body-randomly – redfox05 Jul 15 '15 at 15:06

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