Added Custom Group in Template, Getting Odd Characters: � ��

So, I added an extra group for a new project I'm trying, and I was going to just add each field in individually, but my site hosts 3 sites with 17 more in the works, so if anyone wanted to add a field, I'd have to code each, rather than them playing in the template...

Anyway, here are my attempts.

I added this to the item page:

And this to the item.xml file:

It is allowing me to put fields in the group section in the backend template, and it is displaying them on the front end, but it is also showing a bunch of odd characters:

� � � �
www.365daysofstyle.com � �� �
� �
� �� �� �

And so on. I've attached an image.

Any ideas?

Like I said, I can work around it, but I'd like an extensible solution. *smiles*

Thanks for any feedback!

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That question mark inside a diamond character usually indicates a character encoding issue.
The character code does not exist in UTF-8 so that is what appears.

Somehow the "bad" characters are being introduced.
It could be an editor issue.
Or ? ? ?


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How weird... I thought I'd posted a reply earlier tomorrow.

Anyway, the characters show before and after every field in that group.

They do not show if those fields are in any other group.

Some characters show even if all the code that is there is:

Not as many... As the fields are not there, but that tells me something, anyway.

I'm wondering if I need to put that group info somewhere other than just in the template and XML.

Any thoughts?

The page is here:

www.365daysofstyle.com/style-tag/nats

Thank you!

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My guess is character issues introduced by the editor when the template was edited.
From looking at the page HTML code it looks like CR/LF issues (DOS vs. UNIX), or?

I can see the characters in the HTML between the various page elements.
So it looks like editor CR/LF issues.

[attachment=0:2vhu9076]<!-- ia0 -->365dayasofstyle-character-issues.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2vhu9076]


I can delete the characters from the HTML as you can see in the image above.
The junk characters are gone above her image.
And below that in Firebug you can see the characters between the page elements.

What editor did you use, and on what operating system?

Please ZIP-up the template and attach it here if you would like me to take a look at it.

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I've edited a million of these, but this is the first time I've seen these characters added in.

I'm working in both Dreamweaver (sometimes, when I"m lazy) and TextEditor on Mac OS 10.5.8.

It was adding spaces, which were translating incorrectly. I removed them in the text editor, which removed them on the page.

*smiles*

Thank you!