title: Tick symbol in HTML/XHTML
body: <p>We need to display a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick_(checkmark)" rel="noreferrer">tick symbol</a> (&#10003; or &#10004;) within an internal web app and would ideally like to avoid using an image.</p>
  
  <p>Has to work starting with IE 6.0.2900 on a XP box, ideally we need it be cross-browser (IE + recent versions of FF).</p>
  
  <p>The following displays boxes although sets browser encoding to UTF-8 (META works nicely and not the issue). The default font is Times New Roman (might be an issue, but trying Lucida Sans Unicode doesn't help and I don't have neither Arial Unicode MS, nor Lucida Grande installed).</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
   &amp;#10003; &amp;#10004;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help appreciated.</p>
  
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  <p>The following works under IE 6.0 and IE 7:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
   &lt;span style="font-family: wingdings; font-size: 200%;"&gt;&amp;#252;&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would appreciate if someone could check under FF on Windows. I am pretty sure it won't work on a non Windows box.</p>