Special Characters in Meta-description

Question

I would like to know if there is a reliable way to use symbols in meta-description like seen here

http://print24.com/ch-de/product/visitenkarten/

-> go to source-code and see within "meta description" the checkmarks used. Is this only possible with a supported font or would icons (glyphicon, fontawesome) also succeed.

The above example works in google but is there a reliable way to support bing and yahoo too?

Answer 1

A meta-description can only contain text.

In the example you mentioned, they use ✓, which is just another text character (technically not different to a, 1 etc.). Unicode defines all these characters. There are, for example, also emoticons like and .

For displaying these characters as intended, your users need to have fonts installed that contain/support them.