On Jul 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Jose Robins wrote:

> I was just thinking today that instead of using "TODO" and "DONE"  
> keywords in org-mode to denote tasks, why not use a square box  
> character (like in task manager apps) to denote a TODO state and a  
> square box with a tick to denote a completed state... That would  
> make the tasks look more intuitive...
>
> Since I'm only superficially familiar with UTF and issues with  
> character sets, could someone suggest a method on how to achieve  
> this? I guess, I should be able to copy and paste this character in  
> a customize buffer, right? Any issues with this?

You can use any characters if you also tell the syntax table that  
these are word characters.

- Carsten