ZaphDingbat font output in HTML copy/paste into Quark

[The_Hat]

I work at a newspaper in the online department. We have people that take care of community event calendars that have to do double work to make that information appear online. We do have an application provided to us by our corporate owners that is able to both be used as an organizational tool for them as well as making the content appear online. One of the features of this program is the ability to make a custom templated page that could be made to closely resemble the design of the print product so that they might enter the events into the database and then simply copy from a database.html page and paste into a quark page.

The page I am working on duplicating uses the font Zapf Dingbats to have a small black arrow in front of the event data.

QUESTION IS: I don't have Zapf Dingbats on my development computer but would like to include that arrow so it can be copied off the page at the same time the text is. Is there some way I can include some code in the database output that once copied and pasted into quark would be made sense of by quark to become the icon they wanted?

Would simply <font="zapf dingbats">x</font> work?

Interesting problem, I thought it might be interesting to others.

[bcolflesh]

You could try the HTML entity for right arrow:

&rarr;

and see if that's acceptable for their purposes?

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