Often, you might see erroneous characters appear in your text / code. In particular, the following has always bugged me:
“This jacket costs £25″
This is an issue with how you are encoding your text. The error shown above is a telltale sign that you are inadvertantly viewing UTF-8 (Unicode) encoded text in ISO-8859-1 (ASCII) mode. You must then find out where this conversion is happening.
The reason for the above error is because the £ symbol in Unicode is encoded in double the number of bytes as the ascii version, the hex values of which are shown below:
£ in unicode: 0xC2,0xA3 Â in ascii: 0xC2 £ in ascii: 0xA3
If you are seeing this error in HTML, check the that the file is saved in the same encoding as the doctype of the document.
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