Keyboard Viewer does a good job with “real” character fonts, but when you move into symbols and dingbats, you’ve got a problem. Apple’s Character Palette can help in this regard because it will show you all those oddball characters and allow you to insert them into your text, but it’s not the most intuitive utility Apple’s created. (You switch this on just as you do Keyboard Viewer. Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu and enable the Character Palette option. It will appear in the Input menu in the menu bar if you’ve enabled it.)
For quickly finding and applying these arcane characters I use Egonis’ $30 PopChar X. Install it and it’s activated by clicking in the upper-left corner of the Mac’s menubar. Select the font you want from a pop-up menu and choose the character you like.
http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/
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