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I would like to know if there is a reliable way to use symbols in meta-description like seen here

http://print24.com/ch-de/product/visitenkarten/

-> go to source-code and see within "meta description" the checkmarks used. Is this only possible with a supported font or would icons (glyphicon, fontawesome) also succeed.

The above example works in google but is there a reliable way to support bing and yahoo too?

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  • Those are simple Unicode characters … and any font that has glyphs for them, can display them. (Trying to use your own icon fonts in that place however would not make sense – because Google & Co. will not use that font to display their search results.) – CBroe Jun 22 '15 at 21:42

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A meta-description can only contain text.

In the example you mentioned, they use ✓, which is just another text character (technically not different to a, 1 etc.). Unicode defines all these characters. There are, for example, also emoticons like and .

For displaying these characters as intended, your users need to have fonts installed that contain/support them.

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  • Obligatory [The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html). "*For displaying these characters as intended, your users need to have fonts installed that contain/support them.*": Also think about, for instance, google search results where these will be displayed/used; you don't always control the font. – RobIII Jun 22 '15 at 22:26