Forum:Does anyone know why a template call would be messed up by a music character?

The character in question is ♫ or. One of my templates, c:ChristianMusic:Template:Track Link Builder, outputs that character after a link. I was then passing that to a second template as, only to find that  was empty (it expands to "".  If I use   (  is a shortcut for  ), it now expands to "".

What is going on? Will (Talk - contribs) 05:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)