Custom glyph used with css content property with pseudo element

[jlp695]

Does anyone know how to use a custom glyph with the “content property”? I think that is what is being achieved at this website: http://themefortress.com/reverie/.

Note the “Clean and Simple” heading has a paper airplane icon preceding it.

I believe the corresponding CSS code is as follows:

.icon-paper-plane:before{content:'\e80e'}

I guess the root of my question is what does “e80e” represent as it is not a standard glyph. Nor does the glyph come with that particular google font (I don’t think).

[Paulie_D]

E808e is one of the 6400 characters in the Private Use Unicode subset.

http://www.utf8icons.com/character/59406/UTF-8-character

My guess is that someone remapped that character to the paper plane icon using an icon editor of some kind…there are quite a few around.

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