Character sets

Webdings font should not be used in Web pages or in e-mails that will be viewed in a Web browser. Specifying Webdings font is contrary to the published HTML specifications, has never been a documented feature of HTML and is not reliable.

This page is not a demonstration of how to use Webdings font; it provides a warning of the problems that it causes, and shows how to use Unicode instead.

Webdings is not available on all computers, and so the intended characters may not appear on computers running non-Microsoft operating systems such as Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10, Linux, Android or Chrome OS. The same problems are found with the Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 fonts – they should not be used in Web pages.

This page lists (and attempts to display) all of the 223 characters in the Webdings font. It also lists (and attempts to display) the equivalent Unicode characters.

If you want to view a Web page that uses Webdings characters, then you need to use the Internet Explorer browser; other browsers will probably show none or only some of the Webdings characters.

The characters that appear in the Webdings Character column of the following table are generated by the non-standard technique of specifying the Webdings font, using <font face="Webdings">. It is possible that your combination of browser and operating system will show the Webdings characters, but browsers that conform to the published standards will demonstrate why Webdings font should not be used in Web pages.

The characters that appear in the Unicode Character column of the following table are generated from Unicode numeric character references, and so they should appear correctly in any Web browser that supports Unicode and that has suitable fonts available, regardless of the operating system.