jquery .text() and unicode

Question

I\'d like to display the \"Open Lock\" character in my HTML link text.

If I do it directly it shows up correctly with 🔒<

Answer 1

edited — If it were a Unicode code point that could be represented in a single UTF-16 character, then ou could use JavaScript escape sequences in such situations:

$('#foo').text('\uXXXX');

However, because your character requires more bits, that doesn't work. It would probably be possible to construct the byte sequence that'd allow the character to be represented as UTF-16, but it'd be a pain. I'd go with .html().

Note that not all fonts provide glyphs for "exotic" code points like that, and in my experience those that do provide incredibly ugly ones.