Extra Characters displayed in Calendar

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I'm running MediaWiki 1.22.4.

I installed the MW Calendar Extension v3.8.4 (9/15/2009) and it is working 
wonderfully.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Calendar_(Kenyu73)
https://code.google.com/p/mw-calendar/downloads/list

Here is the calendar code that I used.
<calendar name="Paul's Calendar" useconfigpage editdefault usetemplates 
enablerepeatevents /> 

ISSUE:
The calendar displays a gt symbol (>) at the begining of the calendar
and ends with a lt (symbol) (<) and above the Weekdays text is a row of
alternating symbols (<> <> <> <> <> <> <>).
I have a screen snapshot of my calendar (please see attachment) showing these 
characters.

I tried modifying Calendar.php, calendar_template.html, default.css
to determine the problem but I can't seem to figure it out.
Do you have any idea why these extra characters are showing up?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pjcs...@gmail.com on 5 May 2014 at 1:12

Attachments:

• mw-calendar.PNG