CKEditor and escaping elements

Question

I\'ve using CKEditor for updating CMS content on my website. I also using FontAwesome, which includes set of fancy icons, that can be displayed like this

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Answer 1

below worked for me.. thanks to Vince Kronlein pointing out config.fillEmptyBlocks

CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config ) {
       config.fillEmptyBlocks="​";  
}
CKEDITOR.dtd.$removeEmpty['span'] = false;
CKEDITOR.dtd.$removeEmpty['i'] = false;