<p>is it possible to display &#8659; entity in ie6? It is being display in every browser but not IE 6.I am writing markup such as:  </p>

<pre><code>&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8659;&lt;/span&gt; 
</code></pre>

[{'answer_id': 60679, 'author': 'ConroyP', 'author_id': 2287, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2287', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080221144246/http://www.ackadia.com:80/web-design/character-code/character-code-symbols.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this page</a>, that symbol doesn\'t show in IE6 at all. </p>\n\n<pre><code>Symbol  Character  Numeric  Description\n⇓       &amp;dArr;     &amp;#8659;  Down double arrow - -  * Doesn\'t show with MS IE6\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If you really need that particular symbol, you may just have to go for a small graphic of the arrow - not an ideal solution, but if you need it to display in IE6 then that may be your only option.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 60688, 'author': 'Shog9', 'author_id': 811, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/811', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Yes, it is possible... But you\'ll need to explicitly tell IE which font to find it in. For instance:</p>\n\n<pre><code>&lt;span style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS"&gt; &amp;#8659; &lt;/span&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>should produce  &#8659;  in most browsers.</p>\n'}]
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