Which character can work as "tick" (US "check-mark") in documents under Ubuntu and Windows?

Question

I need to use a character for "tick" in LibreOffice documents that will display OK in Ubuntu and Windows. Character 252 (or thereabout) in Wingdings works in Windows but obviously this character wouldn't be displayed properly on systems lacking the fontset (eg my Ubuntu system).

Can Wingdings be installed in Ubuntu? That would solve my problem of transferring documents between my Windows and Ubuntu systems.

Is there another way to solve this? eg an anternative font that looks like a "tick" and works across setups. I suppose if there is no other way, I could use the square root character, which is in the basic fontset.

Solution

Unicode has a character for the tick (check-mark) character:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick_(check_mark)

You can find this character using the search function of the "Character Map" application. But do search for "check mark" and not "tick".

Comments

[Admin]

Hmmm. Could you include a screenshot of the character you are talking about? When you say tick, I am imagining a backtick, i.e. "`"

[Admin]

Also devbinder.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/… may work for installing wingdings.

[jippie]

live.gnome.org/Gucharmap on Ubuntu

[glocal]

This actually works as long as I use a unicode font of course. Thanks!

[John]

But Webdings is not on Windows by default so it is not really a solution to the question.