Android Hijacking My Star Character

Thus, I had an interesting problem while working on responsive e-commerce design.

We use the HTML star symbol to display our ratings, not images. We, like most, use a solid star for a filled star and a hollow one to point to it.

Like this: ★★★ ☆☆

Android strips out the filled character but not the hollow one. In doing so, it increases the width causing layout issues.

Is there a way to override their override (ew)?

Here is a screenshot of what I see on the Galaxy S5.