Weird icons appearing on Safari in between words

Question

I'm seeing strange icons on Safari, but only in one section of my site, I've tried googling/searching stack for an answer but it's hard because I can't copy the symbols and in the inspector there's just space between each word. The only way I can show the problem is with a picture:

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Answer 1

The problem is that your browser is using a different character encoding from that of the document you're viewing.

So be sure that your web page uses the UTF-8 encoding:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Answer 2

It was photoshop's fault, I'd copied the text straight from the PSD and I guess it had some encoding that added those symbols, I've re-typed the quote by hand (shudder) and the symbols are gone :)