Symbol Script for Breast Cancer Ribbon

Question

I have Windows Vista 32 bit with Javascript. I am a four time breast cancer survivor who uses facebook for support, awareness, education and spreading positivity and my love of God. I would very much like to add an Awareness Ribbon to my username. I've seen others with Greek symbols in theirs. It's just a little ribbon and I've been searching for months.

Is it possible, I am not using the correct terminology when searching the web? If not, please suggest what words I should be using. Thank You.

Answer 1

The term you are looking for is "unicode characters."

I do not know if there is a character that looks like a ribbon. There is a bow-tie, it looks like this: ⋈

Answer 2

I don't know of the specific unicode symbol that represents what you are talking about, but there are several options:

• You could use a tool such as http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/ and try to find the character by using the "Show Range" filter on the top right. Then click the button immediately to its right. There are a lot of categories, and even more characters per category, so it might take a while.
• If you have ever seen this character used, you should be able to highlight it and copy and paste it wherever you like.

Here's another site that lets you browse the Unicode chars by category: http://www.unicode.org/charts/index.html. However, this uses PDF, so it might take even more time to find what you want.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Unicode allow you to combine characters to form a unified one? Couldn't you find the two parts of what looks like a ribbon and combine them to form a single character?

Update: The closest Unicode chars I found are: ɣ, ɤ

Answer 3

You are looking for Webdings but this is not part of the unicode set.