OS-X tip from my Panorama list Sorry if its already well known
One last nugget I would like to mention that you can find in OS X that may have escaped some. If you go to the System Preferences and International panel and click the Input Menu tab, there is a checkbox next to the Character Palette item. If you click this on, you will have an icon now in the menu bar just to the right of Help which will give you access to this really great utility. The Character Palette is where you can view and select all the font characters available in all your fonts including the unicode items and a whole bunch of special symbols. You can view all the available symbols for instance and click on the one you need. Then click the little down arrow at the bottom and a panel drops down with a font selector. Now if you click the box to show only fonts containing selected character, the font menu will only contain fonts with this symbol. Once you find the character and font you want, you can click the Insert button to drop it into the current application document. How to get there under OS-X 10.24 >Go to International Preferences, click on Inpu Tab, slide blue >scroll capsule to the top of the scroll bar,find "Character >Pallette" at top of list of of languages, click check box at left, >see icon appear in menu bar at top of screen, experiment with it, >enjoy.
