Useful Symbols for Facebook

Oh thats neat. I have tried to use them to craft a joke:

http://www.facebook.com/simonsarris/posts/588838121696

Or if they show up on HN:

    I think in gay marriage chess the girls have an unfair advantage.
    
    ♖♘♗♕♕♗♘♖
    ♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙
    
    ♟♟♟♟♟♟♟♟
    ♜♞♝♚♚♝♞♜

In case it's not clear, this really has nothing to do with Facebook except for the way it's marketed (suggested use).

Note: of the symbols there, '%' seems to stand out as a character that is on just about all keyboards right? (maybe '$' also)

More like unicode symbols but OK.

http://panmental.de/symbols/info.htm this is more complete symbol list that you can copy from.

Facebook trademark violation much?

Shutdown notice in 3... 2... 1...

See also: http://copypastecharacter.com/

So much for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322696 then (My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.)

I'd say this is nicely done, well organised, useful and well marketed.

Dont really see a point for me going to another website to get some symbols. Usability can be improved.

1) User clicks on the symbol and it is copied to the clipboard. No need for Ctrl+C.

2) Make a Chrome/Firefox extension.

What's the point? =/ If you're going to make something, at least try to innovate rather than stick some symbols in a table (which most people could do in 10 minutes).

And why should these symbols be useful for/on Facebook?