It does look like a symbol but perhaps that's because the browser is rendering it as a symbol before outputting it. I figure all this effort is being put in for SEO that we should probably use HTML entities where appropriate (copyright, symbols, arrows, etc).
Confirmed, Object Inspection in the latest Chrome Dev is actually changing the HTML encoded chars in the source... kind of annoying really because when you view the source you want to actually view the source
Confirmed, Object Inspection in the latest Chrome Dev is actually changing the HTML encoded chars in the source... kind of annoying really because when you view the source you want to actually view the source