Searching gmail at google.com - strange things happen

Question

I've been looking this days to the code (using google chrome and its Inspect element feature) of several pages in order to see what they are doing (javascript, css, html, etc...) and I've seen something strange when searching for gmail at www.google.es (It's the same with www.google.com)

Just go to the link or search it yourselves and you'll see:

What is that line doing there? I already tried cleaning my monitor but it's not that ;)

I tried to look at the code in order to see if I could understand what is going on but I can't see anything strange:

Any ideas?

This is just a bunch of unicode modifier spam, nothing special going on. [eeemo.net](https://eeemo.net/) can generate these. — Scott, Jun 13 '16 at 15:50
I think [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27945154/messed-up-characters-in-webpages-especially-social-media) is answer of your question. — Alex, Jun 13 '16 at 15:52
There is a character ฏ๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎ — SML, Jun 13 '16 at 15:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

It is actually a single unicode character ฏ๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎ which has an unicode entities of \u0e0f\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e\u0e4e Basically the diacritical mark (commonly used for accented letter) was added to the letter 26 times.

It has nothing to do with google itself, that character was in the meta tag of one of the sites it crawled and thus shown in the search result.

The link Alex posted, provides detailed explanation on this.

Searching gmail at google.com - strange things happen

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