How to use font glyphs on windows 8 tile?

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to use a font glyph like the check box and check used in the windows 8 tile example from this page: The tile template catalog under the "Task lists" example at the bottom.

I couldn't find much on how to get this to work because it appears there is a limitation on setting the font type in a tile.

On the Segoe UI Symbol icon list page, it says, "If you are working with tiles, you can't use these glyphs because you can't specify the tile font and PUA glyphs are not available via font-fallback.".

But I'm just wondering why there would be an example on the tile template catalog page with a font glyph?

Is there any way to set the font type inside of the tile xml? Or what are some alternatives that might get the same result?

Answer 1

There are plenty of Unicode symbol glyphs outside of the private-use area that fallback properly. You find them with the charmap.exe applet in Windows for example. Like ✓ and ☐ (U+2713 and U+2610)