HTML and XML entities are just a way of referencing a Unicode code-point in a way that reliably works regardless of the encoding of the actual page, making them useful for using esoteric Unicode characters in a page using 7-bit ASCII or some other encoding scheme, ideally on a one-off basis. They're also used to escape the <, >, " and & characters as these are reserved in SGML.
Anyway, Unicode has a number of tick/check characters, as per Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick_(check_mark) ).
Ideally you should save/store your HTML in a Unicode format like UTF-8 or 16, thus obviating the need to use HTML entities to represent a Unicode character. Nonetheless use: ✔ ✔.
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Is using hex notation and is the same as
$#10004;
(as 2714 in base 16 is the same as 10004 in base 10)
