What is the unicode character for the close symbol used by Twitter bootstrap?

Question

Just curious, because I just realized it wasn\'t an actual \"x\" (annoying how long that took to figure out).

Answer 1

It uses ×.

You can use the following to obtain the desired information about any character:

$ perl -Mcharnames=:full -CA -e'
   printf("U+%04X %s\n", $_, charnames::viacode($_))
      for unpack "W*", $ARGV[0];
' ×
U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN

If you're going to use it in HTML, you can encode it as follows:

$ perl -MHTML::Entities -CA -e'
   CORE::say encode_entities($ARGV[0]);
' ×
×

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Notes:

• The above programs expect the argument to be encoded using UTF-8.
• The line breaks can be removed to make true one-liners.