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=Text symbols=

Text symbols are a variety of icons, such as , ,, and , that can be inserted into level descriptions, reviews, chat messages, or any other LittleBigPlanet text field except the note. This is done by including Unicode symbol references within the text.

What is Unicode?
Unicode is a universal character set that LittleBigPlanet and the PlayStation 3 in general are using. It's a map translating the data bytes from which all text in computer devices is built into visible symbols, like letters, digits or symbols. Unicode goal is to support all of glyphs created by mankind in to single character set. LittleBigPlanet supports HTML reference codes using custom numerical codes indicating specific bytes. They look like this: &#Value; or &#хHexValue;. In place of Value or HexValue we put the numerical value of the specific symbol. The controller symbols are in the Unicode 'private use' area of 57344-63743 or E000(hex)-F8FF(hex). If for example we want the button, the code is 57345 or E001(hex), so we type &#57345; or &#xE001; and you should have the  button.

As these codes are used in HTML, this also works in HTML websites that use Unicode - including the LittleBigPlanet Wiki. Codes for LittleBigPlanet-exclusive symbols will not work outside of the game but the wiki provides an icon template to help display these in articles.

Space removal
Due to a bug in LittleBigPlanet 2, a large empty space is created between a symbol and the text that follows it. It's possible to remove it from the level title, level description and reviews. After adding the code, by opening and closing the keyboard window, the code is entirely replaced by real bytes reassembling the symbol and as a result there is no extra space anymore. =Code List=