Why does emacs-w3m make these into "o" when it seems the star would work fine? $ w3m -dump http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html |grep ☆.*AS..p ☆ Embedded AS3 player: ☆ Chromeless AS3 player: ☆ Embedded AS2 player: ☆ Chromeless AS3 player: