Get UTF-8 equivalent of a Wingdings character

Question

The Problem

I'm developing a PHP application which displays Wingdings and Webdings characters. If I Just put a font-tag around it, the character gets displayed correctly. Though, once it gets copy-pasted it reverts to the character it was before like "a".

What I think would be the Solution

This problem could be solved by escaping every wingdings character on the page by the UTF-8 equivalent. UTF-8 holds so many characters, so I'm guessing that Wingings characters and the like are also on that list.

Question

How can I map/create UTF-8 characters from Wingdings characters?

Answer 1

Here is a list of equivalent unicode characters to wingdings. Is this, what you are looking for?

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html