Using the Alt Key combination

Hi,
I am using the alt-key combination, Alt-9734, to produce this star ☆ in a marquee I created in DW 5.5. Works fine in IE but not Safari or Chrome. In these two browsers the star is showing as,
â˜† â˜† â˜† , any ideas. Thanks,
Frank

You could use the following html entity code in your source view where you want the star, remove the spaces...
& # 9734 ;
or
& star ;
Here's a reference page for all of the other speical characters..
http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

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