Unicode characters and Internet Explorer

Question

I just built a site that relies on certain Unicode characters like Ⓐ, but why doesn\'t Internet Explorer show these characters?

Is there

Answer 1

This page helped me figure out which fonts would display correctly for me:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/fontlist.htm?text=%E2%96%B6+-+Unicode+Character+%27BLACK+RIGHT-POINTING+TRIANGLE%27+%28U%2B25B6%29

Arial Unicode MS didn't seem available to me in Win XP IE8 on a VMWare virtual machine, but Lucida Sans Unicode appeared to work.

Then I wrote this SCSS mixin:

@mixin unicodeFont(){
    font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial Unicode MS, Arial;
}