Linking badges for Social Websites

r those using Blip.fm, it’s very easy to Tweet out little messages indicating what you’re listening to, if you tie the services together, and Blip appears to automatically tack on the music notes symbol.

Special characters are handled in HTML and other markup languages via “entity reference” codes or “character references”, of course, and are nothing new. You may be able to simply copy and paste a special character that you want to use, but I’ve also found that you may need to actually paste in the special character code in order to get the symbol to appear.

Some special characters are really too intricate to adequately convey, unfortunately.

I’ve made a helpful list of special character entity codes which you can easily copy-and-paste into your Tweets. These are not all special characters, since I left out the more boring special punctuation characters, foreign language letters and symbols which I think are unlikely to communicate in the tiny letter size employed by Twitter:


					
						♠ 
						&spades; (solid spade)

						♤ &#9828; (open spade)

						♣ &clubs; (solid club / shamrock / clover)

						♧ &#9831; (open club / shamrock / clover)

						♦ &diams; (solid diamond)

						◊ &loz; (open diamond / lozenge)

						♥ &hearts; (solid heart)

						❤ &#10084; (heavy solid heart)

						❥ &#10085; (heavy rotated solid heart)

						♡ &#9825; (open heart)

						☻ &#9787; (solid happy face)

						☺ &#9786; (open happy face)

						☹ &#9785; (open frowny face)

						₪ &#8362; (arabesque)

						♀ &#9792; (female symbol)

						♂ &#9794; (male symbol)

						↑ &uarr; (up arrow)

						↓ &darr; (down arrow)

						→ &rarr; (right arrow)

						← &larr; (left arrow)

						↔ &harr; (right & left arrow)

						⇑ &uArr; (double up arrow)

						⇓ &dArr; (double down arrow)

						⇐ &lArr; (double left arrow)

						⇒ &rArr; (double right arrow)

						⇔ &hArr; (double right & left arrow)

						Δ &Delta; (triangle / delta)

						£ &pound; (pounds)

						¢ &cent; (cents)

						€ &euro; (Euros)

						¥ &yen; (Yen)

						♕ &#9813; (White Queen - crown)

						♔ &#9812; (White King - crown)

						♘ &#9816; (White Knight - horse)

						♚ &#9818; (Black King - crown)

						♛ &#9819; (Black Queen - crown

						♞ &#9822; (Black Knight - horse)

						© &copy; (copyright)

						® &reg; (registered trademark)

						™ &trade; (trademark)

						• &bull; (bullet / solid circle)

						∅ &empty; (zero with slash thru)

						¿ &iquest; (upside down question mark)

						‹ &lsaquo; (less-than)

						› &rsaquo; (greater-than)

						« &laquo; (double less-than, quote)

						» &raquo; (double greater-than, quote)

						№ &#8470; (Number, numero symbol - "No.")

						★ &#9733; (solid star)

						☆ &#9734; (open star)

						✪ &#10026; (circled white star)

						✹ &#10041; (12 pointed black star)

						† &dagger; (cross or dagger)

						‡ &Dagger; (double cross)

						☠ &#9760; (skull & crossbones/ pirates/ Jolly Rodger/ 
						poison symbol)

						☽ &#9789; (waxing crescent moon)

						☾ &#9790; (waning crescent moon)

						☪ &#9770; (Islam - crescent moon & star)

						☭ &#9773; (Communist - hammer & sickle)

						❦ &#10086; ( upright - floral heart / hedera / ivy leaf)

						❧ &#10087; ( sideways,rotated - floral heart / hedera / 
						ivy leaf)

						♩ &#9833; (single music note - quarter note)

						♪ &#9834; (single music note - eighth note)

						♫ &#9835; (double music note - single bar note)

						♬ &#9836; (double music note - double bar note)

						✡ &#10017; (Star of David)

						☯ &#9775; (Yin/Yang)

						☮ &#9774; (Peace Sign)

						☸ &#9784; (Dharma wheel, sailing wheel)

						¤ &curren; (currency or sun)

						☀ &#9728; (sunshine - sun)

						⊕ &oplus; (circled plus or cross in a circle)

						⊗ &otimes; (circled times or exxed circle)

						℞ &#8478; (RX - prescription symbol)

						☁ &#9729; (cloud - cloudy)

						☂ &#9730; (umbrella - rain)

						☄ &#9732; (comet)

						☎ &#9742; (solid phone)

						☏ &#9743; (open phone)

						☑ &#9745; (check box)

						☒ &#9746; (exxed box)

						☚ &#9754; (left-pointing finger)

						☛ &#9755; (right-pointing finger)

						☝ &#9757; (up pointing finger)

						☞ &#9758; (down pointing finger)

						☠ &#9760; (skull & crossbones)

						☥ &#9765; (Ankh)

						☢ &#9762; (radioactive)

						☣ &#9763; (biohazard)

						✓ &#10003; (check mark)

						✝ &#10013; (Latin Roman Cross)

						✞ &#10014; (Latin Cross 3d shadow)

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