While looking for a character to place into Illustrator today, I noticed that the Keycaps character map utility is no longer to be found in OS X Panther (10.3). Poking around in Google, I found that this function is now handled through the Keyboard Viewer palette. Getting this to show up takes a few steps though. First, open System Preferences and show the International settings. Second, select the Input Menu tab and check the Keyboard Palette checkbox. Check the menu box that reads 'Show input menu in menu bar'. Now you will notice an icon in your system's top menu bar, probably the U.S.
Easily type accented characters. To Windows users who use the US International keyboard layout—is built right into Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). To Show Input Menu In Menu Bar, and then.
This the input menu. When you click on the menu you can select 'Show Keyboard Viewer' and the palette will open, allowing you to select a font and hold down Option, Shift, Command keys to view keyboard combinations.