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using HTML-entities for Unicode

{{Warning|The current editor on this wiki is NOT unicode safe. Unicode characters will be replaced by ?in the editor. SoYou can copy/paste Unicode into the editor and it will save properly, but you won't be able to edit the article properly. As a work-around, you could view the article in one window and edit the article in another so that you can copy/paste back the Unicodecharacters. As a more permanent solution, we're using the HTML-entity equivalents until we can make the editor Unicode safe.}}

Sometimes you just want a character that is not a standard letter, that will show up in email or a webpage. For example, we made this handy '[[Used car checklist|Used Car Buying Checklist]]' without any HTML forms by simply using the Unicode character for a checkbox.

~~== ? ? ? ==~~

== ☐ ☑ ☒ ==

The standardized Unicode characters that best represent a checkbox are:

?☐, U+2610 Ballot box ?☑, U+2611 Ballot box with check ?☒, U+2612 Ballot box with X

If you don't have a Unicode-safe editor you can use the HTML entity equivalent ~~('''terminate each with a semi-colon''')~~: &#x2610 ; &#x2611 ; &#x2612 ;

== See also ==

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