How to show special characters on Apple App Store product description?

I see with some apps like Toodledo they use checkmarks for their revision history.开发者_StackOverflow社区 How can you show/use special characters in an App Store product description? Does it allow HTML or do you just have to use ascii character codes?

Any tips/tricks for better presentation of our app's product information?

Thank you.

I think Apple just made the rule stricter on the App Store. I have been using special characters in my metadatas for a very long time but got a bad surprise today when trying to submit a new version:

Got this error message on iTunes Connect:

What's New In This Version must not contain the following characters: ★, ❤

Simply enter the characters using the character table in OS X.

To show it, go to OS X System Preferences -> International and select "Show Input Sources in Menu Bar". You should get a flag symbol next to the clock in the menu bar. Clicking on it results in a menu where you can open the character table, in which you can select and paste pretty much any character.

I am the author of the Toodledo app. Here is how I did it. I found the character I wanted on the internet by searching for "unicode symbols". I found it on wikipedia

I then copy and pasted the checkmark ✓ into my app description. And every time I need to make a new checkmark, I go and copy and paste it again since I don't know how to type it. There are lots of interesting symbols to choose from. I also use a star★

UnicodeChecker is an excellent Mac app that contains a database of over 100,000 characters defined in Unicode. You can search for characters by their assigned English names. For example, search for "check" to find several kinds of checkmark characters. Once found, you can copy a character and paste into your description.

UnicodeChecker is free of cost.