CharView allows you to type unusual characters from keyboard. It displays all of the symbols of a selected font, allowing you to quickly choose between the different character sets. Features include:

• system-wide utility window (floating above documents windows)
• menu icon (small icon shown in menubar, CharView main window hidden before the user moves the mouse pointer into this icon)
• view font symbols in ASCII (256 chars) or Unicode (entire font)
• auto-zoomed (magnified) symbol in table without a click
• copy symbol to the clipboard and insert it into the frontmost application with one click
• insert symbol, it’s HTML entity, decimal or hexadecimal code into the frontmost application with one click from contextual menu
• fully resizable window
• up to 20 of the last used fonts remembered
• fonts grouped by families for fast searching of fonts
• editable font name field for fast switching fonts
• works with all native OS X, OS X Classic applications (version 3.8.3)