HTML Entities and Unicode
An & in the Markdown file gets changed into & by Markdown.
< and > get changed into < and >.
You can enter HTML entities
like © and £ directly into the Markdown:
©, £, §, ¶, ←, →, ♥, etc.
You can also paste unicode characters directly into the Markdown source and they’ll be rendered. Here’s a few: ⌘ ⌥ ❄ ★ ☂ 🍔 🤷 📚 🎒 ✋ 👓 🐅.