Unicode in Github markdown

Question

I just made a failed attempt to put unicode in Github markdown (in a README.md file) in my project.

I tried this:

(U+262E)

but it w

Answer 1

I believe the correct answer is to use unicode characters of the following (decimal) form

►
˿
ॠ

the above become:

► ˿ ॠ

Try it for yourself on Github and see. You have to paste the raw character strings, not the unicode symbol itself. It's not about what shows up in your editor, it's what actually displays on github.com.