Hi!

Of all the icons that Jira defines, the (x) icon is the only one that gets transformed a 4-byte utf8 character that can't be stored to a regular utf8 datatable

May I suggest to use ⊠, the "squared times" sign, instead.

• It is only a 2-byte utf8 character that can therefore correctly be stored to a utf8 database.
• It plays nicely with the transformations of (-) and (+) which get translated to ⊟ "squared minus" and ⊞ "squared plus"

Thanks, Estigy