I would like to generate a list of the symbols for the planets to include in a nice table with other data. How can I programmatically generate (eg. using a pure function) the symbols from a list of the planets' names as strings.
Such an input list is generated as follows:
AstronomicalData["Planet"]
{"Mercury", "Venus", "Earth", "Mars", "Jupiter", "Saturn", "Uranus", "Neptune"}
If I can do it for one name, then it's solved. Doing it manually by typing \[Saturn]
produces the desired symbol ♄
, but doing it manually is not a desirable option.
The following attempt fails in any case:
\[#] & /@ {"Saturn"}