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The check or check mark (American English), checkmark (Philippine English), tickmark (Indian English) or tick (Australian, New Zealand and British English) [1] is a mark ( , , etc.) used in many countries, including the English-speaking world, to indicate the concept "yes" (e.g. "yes; this has been verified", "yes; that is the correct answer ...
A template that inserts a green (by default) tick (check mark) inline in the text Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
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In this table, The first cell in each row gives a symbol; The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias.
The format is the same as for any entity reference: &name; where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The semicolon is required. Because numbers are harder for humans to remember than names, character entity references are most often written by humans, while numeric character references are most often produced by computer programs. [1]
Note that Special:Export exports using UTF-8 even if the database is encoded in ISO 8859-1, at least that was the case for the English Wikipedia, already when it used version 1.4. To find out which character set applies in a project, use the browser's "View Source" feature and look for something like this:
Wikipedia searches are easier if a special character is entered as Unicode. If an HTML entity is used, a word like Odiliënberg can only be found by searching for Odili , euml , nberg or combination thereof; this is actually a bug that should be fixed—the entities should be folded into their raw character equivalents so all searches on them ...
A check mark can be placed in a text line as a picture. Instead of using the long IMAGE tag ( [[Image:Check_mark_23x20_02.gif]]) to bring/place the check mark, use the shorter template code/tag: {{Check mark}} for , (or use {{Check mark-n}} for ), which is easy to remember and really displays the check mark in all browser, as the unicode equivalent check mark is not supported yet by all web ...