I seem to have the same problem, but cannot find the strange characters in the text-editors. I even opened the files in vi. I’m on a Mac.
The character give me no trouble, only the ones above the FORM tag.
The only way I could solve this was by changing the function RUN in
ajaxSearch.class.inc.php.
Just before returning the output, I chop off the first two chars.
$output = substr($output,3);
return $output;
}
I know this is very dirty solution. So, will we be getting a new version of AjaxSearch plugin whitout all the strange characters?