Question: I've been looking to use unicode for more iconography, and I haven't been able to find any appropriate unicode for a "view" icon. None of the "eye"-related unicode that I've found works on the web. 

Does anyone know of any unicode icons that would be appropriate for a "view" icon?

Answer: 
You might struggle to find a unicode character to represent "view", but you'll find plenty of web font based icon sets with an eye or view concept.

For example, [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) – the icon web font used in Twitter Bootstrap – has an icon called 'icon-eye-open' that might do the trick. Font Awesome is licensed under [CC-BY-3](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) (you can use it for free as long as you credit them with a link to their site in your CSS or HTML source code), and it supports IE7 or higher.

![icon-eye-open from Font Awesome](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ftNbE.png)
⚲ ([Neuter](https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+26B2)) looks a bit as a magnifier glas, that is what i setteled for as a view symbol.