I know, I know, you don’t need another reason to hate Internet Explorer. I can practically hear the groaning from here. Well, shove it. It’s worse than we thought.

Proper Unicode:

Internet Explorer:

So my beautiful piratical character decoration was lost on those of my viewers who by ill luck, lamentable ignorance, or blatant unabashed laziness remain users of the worst browser. Oh yeah, and the fonts are grinding on the eyes. A pox upon them! A pox indeed.