According to the HTML standard, special characters must be writen in a special form even HTML support it. Instead of checking the code list, you can specify an image link to the icons here. The size of the icons here are more or less the same as normal text so that you can use them as if they are normal character.
/webimage/symbol/html/anchor.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/asterix.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/clover.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/cloverlf.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/cprightl.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/cprights.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/diamond.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/dot.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/exit.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/flagleft.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/flagrigh.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/foot.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/foot2.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/gem.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/invisble.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/latehtml.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/paw.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/register.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/starlg.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/starsm.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/stop.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/text.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/tick.gif
/webimage/symbol/html/tradmark.gif
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