MKV subtitle character problem

[ratatouille]

I had a .srt file which i added to a mkv file container using mkvmerge and Charset was set to default. And the file was muxed. The subtitles were working fine until this musical character
♪ was replaced with ♪ . The info is below

ID                               : 3
Format                           : UTF-8
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language                         : English

Here are the 2 subtitles before muxing and after muxing.

341
00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:08,750
♪ If you pal around
with that Copper hound

342
00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:11,203
♪ You'll wind up hangin' on the wall

343
00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:13,914
♪ Keep your nose to the wind
You'll keep your skin

341
00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:08,750
♪ If you pal around
with that Copper hound

342
00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:11,203
♪ You'll wind up hangin' on the wall

343
00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:13,914
♪ Keep your nose to the wind
You'll keep your skin

Can anyone please tell me how can i get the musical note ♪ again and which encoding i must use i.e UTF-8 or any other.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

[-t40-]

All those hyper smart subtitle creators tends to use Tahoma - just change to Arial or Verdana .