HTML character codes for this ▲ or this ▼

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Ram picture Ram · May 18, 2011 · Viewed 104.5k times · Source

What are the HTML entity character codes for this up arrow (▲) and its downward-facing dog version (▼) ?

I've been using GIFs to represent these arrows since I don't know their codes.

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Joachim Sauer picture Joachim Sauer · May 18, 2011

I usually use the excellent Gucharmap to look up Unicode characters. It's installed on all recent Linux installations with Gnome under the name "Character Map". I don't know of any equivalent tools for Windows or Mac OS X, but its homepage lists a few.

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