Getting extended character for any control using icon in jQuery Mobile

I have reviewed and fixed this problem for this application before, but I don’t remember exactly what it fixed. The only thing I remember is downloading fresh copies of jQuery, jQuery Mobile, etc .; but I did it again, and this did not solve the problem.

This symbol, “”, is displayed for each control that will have an icon, for example listviews with a ">", and buttons visible here.

The character is actually added to the page source, since jQM modifies it (see the contents of the range):

<a data-icon="maps" id="maps-button" data-role="button" target="_blank" href="http://example.com/map/" data-corners="true" data-shadow="true" data-iconshadow="true" data-wrapperels="span" data-theme="a" class="ui-btn ui-shadow ui-btn-corner-all ui-btn-icon-left ui-btn-up-a">
    <span class="ui-btn-inner ui-btn-corner-all">
        <span class="ui-btn-text">Maps</span>
        <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-maps ui-icon-shadow">Â </span>
    </span>
</a>

Any ideas?