What does u003C mean?

I’m looking at twitter’s javascript file, and I see this in the templates hash:

Browse Interests{{/i}}u003C/au003En        u003C/liu003En  {{#logged_in}}n

What do those codes represent?

Answer

It’s a unicode character. In this case u003C and u003E mean :

U+003C < Less-than sign

U+003E > Greater-than sign

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