Wingdings font family does not seem to work on Firefox and Opera

Question

I was using the Wingdings font in the CSS for some symbols like a pencil and a home icon.

It worked on IE, Chrome and Safari but not in Firefox and Opera. I googled

Answer 1

Mozilla and Opera are standard-compiliant. Wingdings is not standard (what a surprise coming from Microsoft) because not mapped to Unicode, and so should never be used on a website.

However, do not despair, most symbols are available in Unicode : check http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html

Important addendum (october 2014) : As of Unicode v7, released on June 16, 2014, all characters from Webdings and Wingdings have been added to Unicode. See the comment below.