I'm not sure this is what you are looking for...¿Windows Vista? Character Map function/app. Pinned it to my task bar. ¢ Click the icon, box comes up with choices, then copy and paste functions to get the symbol into your text... ©®£¥±¶℅⅛�� ╥§
On Preview here, two of them didn't show up ( the two ? in a diamond) were not what I pasted, but it did get Pound and Yen and cent...