HTML Entities and Unicode ========================= An & in the Markdown file gets changed into `&` by Markdown. < and > get changed into `<` and `>`. You can enter [HTML entities](https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref) like `©` and `£` directly into the Markdown: ©, £, §, ¶, ←, →, ♥, etc. You can also paste unicode characters directly into the Markdown source and they'll be rendered. Here's a few: ⌘ ⌥ ❄ ★ ☂ 🍔 🤷 📚 🎒 ✋ 👓 🐅.