Hi Rock,
The problem is in how web pages talk to browsers.
Each character that we see on the screen can be written as a code, these codes start with &
If a piece of code is copied from a webpage it is possible that the browser actually copies the code and not the character. So if you copied a > symbol it would actually appear as > because that's its code.
Our browsers interpret the codes and re-assemble them into characters so we can read it, unfortunately browers aren't always clever enough to recognise the difference like we can, so you get #8301;
Sometimes the forum can filter these problems out and sometimes it gets a bit stuck
