Weird character after mentions

[charlie-eth]

I get this character after every mention which I haven't managed to remove

and it shows as a question mark when I output it:

Apparently, it's a character Chrome can't display (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23511275/json-response-format-error-red-dot-bullet-before-response)

char var dump returns this: ""

Any thoughts on why this is happening?

[ivirabyan]

This character is used internally to keep track of mentions in textarea. You probably getting textarea's value directly, instead of using methods, which causes such an issue.

[charlie-eth]

Actually, I use getMentions and getValue which returns this

where content is the raw content of my textarea (which is the string I store in my database).

I guess I'll just do some str_replace on it.

Thanks

[ivirabyan]

You shouldn't be using raw content of the textarea. Use getRawValue instead.

[charlie-eth]

It's not listed as a method so didn't know it was a thing!

That will help, thank you!

[ivirabyan]

I just added it. Your use case is little different from mine, so I didn't have it before

[charlie-eth]

Thank you!