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Questions tagged [dingbats]

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Disappearing HTML dingbat entities

I'm coming across a weird issue with displaying "dingbats" html entities, specifically ✔ (✔). I am trying to display some checkmarks, wrapped in a simple : ✔ This is…
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Matlab Plot - Font Zapf Dingbats Will Not Render

I have a Matlab program where I need to include a plane icon (Zapf Dingbats 40) in the plot. Everytime I run it, it falls back to a system font. Is there anything that I am doing wrong? This is not the exact code, but illustrates the…
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Unicode special characters appear differently in Firefox vs. Chrome/IE

I'm trying to find a way to make dingbats appear exactly the same in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE. I noticed that the Dingbats appear the same in IE/Chrome/Safari, HOWEVER - in Firefox - they look "thinner". For example - try to visit the…
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How do we change the color and size of dingbat unicode characters in mobile Safari? (html entities)

How can we change the CSS rules of dingbats? The following does not work in iOS Safari. ✖ Below is a JSFiddle that demonstrates the issue. If…
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How do you color HTML symbols like x's and checkmarks?

I would like to make the x's red and the checkmarks green, but confused how to since it's a dingbat HTML code.
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    Drawing glyph from ZapfDingbats using PDFbox

    I am trying to draw a checkmark (found in the PDF standard ZapfDingbats font, Unicode 2714) in my PDF document. I'm a newbie to Apache's PDFBox, using version 2.0.0 at the moment (no specific reason except that it's the newest). My code looks as…
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    UTF8 Dingbats + Javascript

    Is there a way to set the text of an element to something like ✘ (✘) using JQuery? ie: $('#something').text('`✔`'); //only ends in tears.
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    Javascript/dingbats: counting the number of ✔'s in a string

    I am trying to count the checkmarks in a given string. my string may be: var myString = "one ✔ two ✔ three ✔" I have tried using myString.match(/✔/g) || []).length;, but this is returning 0 (I believe that happens because ✔ is a dingbat symbol). I…
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    Unicode UTF-8 Dingbats are broken when a few but fine too many

    Hello I'm trying to convert my html table to excel. And everything is fine except in excel, the dingbats are fine when there are 20 or more but are broken when there are less.. Here's my javascript : $("#btnExport").click(function (e) { var uri…
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