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Icon fonts such as Font-Awesome work by carving out a space of key codes known as code points in a font, and mapping them to glyphs that are actually icons. It's a highly efficient way to pack many vector scalable icons into a convenient web browser-friendly asset. These code points aren't the usual keys accessible on your keyboard and are instead what is described in the unicode standard as private use areas. Normally, characters in unicode are addressed using the code point, such as U+004C , which is the code point for the latin character capital L. Each character has its own code point and is defined in the standard and must be interpreted the same way everywhere.

The exception to this are private use areas, which are special ...