Apple provides a Character Palette utility which allows users to look up and insert individual characters. Once it is installed, users can enter symbols for math, East Asian languages and other scripts.
Note: Some older applications may not support this utility, but it is available in Office 2004/2008, Text Edit, Adobe products, Dreamweaver MX 2004, and others.
The Character Palette can be used to insert characters into applications such
as TextEdit; however not all characters can be inserted into all applications.
Note: The Unicode Character Input Palette is not available in 10.1.


Character Palette - Highlight character, then click Insert.

Character Palette showing Chinese.

Tiger Character Palette (10.4) with scripts organized by region.

Panther Character Palette (10.3)
