Apple provides a Character Viewer (formerly the 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.



The Character Palette can be used to insert characters into applications such as TextEdit; however not all characters can be inserted into all applications.




Character Palette - Highlight character, then click Insert.

Character Viewer showing Chinese options.

Character Viewer/Palette with scripts organized by region.

Panther Character Palette (10.3)
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