Tick symbol in HTML/XHTML

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We need to display a tick symbol (✓ or ✔) within an internal web app and would ideally like to avoid using an image.

Has to work starting with IE 6.0.2900 on a XP box, ideally we need it be cross-browser (IE + recent versions of FF).

The following displays boxes although sets browser encoding to UTF-8 (META works nicely and not the issue). The default font is Times New Roman (might be an issue, but trying Lucida Sans Unicode doesn’t help and I don’t have neither Arial Unicode MS, nor Lucida Grande installed).

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
 &#10003; &#10004;
</body>
</html>

Any help appreciated.

The following works under IE 6.0 and IE 7:

<html>
<head>

</head>
<body>
 <span style="font-family: wingdings; font-size: 200%;">&#252;</span>
</body>
</html>

I would appreciate if someone could check under FF on Windows. I am pretty sure it won’t work on a non Windows box.

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