Unicode character on Android not displaying

Question

I\'m developing a website using responsive design. I am trying to display the unicode character ☰ (the ☰ symbol), and it\'s not showing up on Android. Is ther

Answer 1

The character denoted by ☰ does not appear in Android fonts, and its font coverage is relatively limited in other environments, too.

The basic options are using a downloadable font (web font) via @font-face and to use an image, suitably scaled to text size.

If this is the only “special” character you need, the image approach might be suitable: it is easy, and the shape of the character is so simple that it can be expected to scale well.

Using a downloadable font may produce better results especially if the character is used inline inside text. But you would probably need a font like Quivira or Symbola, which are large (> 1 Mbyte) free fonts, and this would seem to imply a disproportionate overhead if it’s just for one character.

For more info see my Guide to using special characters in HTML.