Where can I find all the characters within a font so I can do what I used to do.

Astute commenter xploraiswakco very politely noted that I had answered her question sort of, but not really the core of what she was asking: the Character Viewer had changed to the Emoji Symbols palette, and no longer has the same approach to showing characters (not key combinations) in every font.

Thank you, xploraiswakco) Why dont I go ahead answer Lynns actual question, then.

Click the tiny palette in its upper right to restore the Characters palette.

If you click the little palette icon in its upper right, kaboom It shrinks to an emoji palette, and gives no indication that its anything but that.

Click the tiny palette icon on the emoji palette, and it expands back to full size.

Thats probably what Lynn needed.

Apologies. Heres another part of whats confusing, too.

Until a few versions ago, the place where you could see the full panoply of all characters available in various sets (along with versions available in locally loaded fonts) was called the Character Palette with the word Palette in the name.

Now, when you select Show Emoji Symbols the Characters (plural) palette shows up.

With any character selected, the palette shows a larger version with markings for cap height, descender, and left and right edges, as well as details, including the Unicode value, useful for embedding in Web pages by hand.

Below that, it shows Related Characters, if any, and scroll down to see Font Variation.

Double-click the variation, and its inserted at the current text-insertion point in a document or text field; if the app youre using supports rich text and fonts, the pasted-in character should be in the typeface shown in the Characters palette.

The same commenter reminds us that the Font Book built into OS X lets you select a font and then select View Reperoire to see a fonts entire character set.

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