Character map not available

Try this: "mac" "character map". Google that and top of page 1 is one totally embarrassing thread, that answers nothing. There is no character map in OS X.

For those not familiar with what a character map is, visit Fonts.com and for any font, now click on the character map link. A character map is a strict ISO defined one-to-one graphical listing of ALL the font glyphs in a font file. A functional character map app or utility (Unix and Linux) allows the document author to select and insert cheaters from the strict ISO mapping into the document text flow. Emoji and Symbols is a joke, considering modern multilingual fonts may have tens of thousands of glyphs. Everything in Apple's App store only rubs salt into every professional, and serious authors' wounds.

There is no Type Glyph flow in any Mac document production. There is no Mac character map. The best Apple offers is the keyboard viewer and a childish Emoji and Symbols chart that is a slap-in-the-face to every scientifically precise, standards maintaining, ISO glyph listing. There is no way no way on Earth for any Mac as supplied by Apple to insert a specific glyph that is not mapped to the extremely limited QWERTY keyboard found in System Preferences. App Store purchases only confound the rediculous. All we want and grossly need is a tool to intelligently list and easily insert any glyph in any font into any document an any Mac.

( Mac is supposed to be a tool for creative people, right? )

So then, how does one create multilingual documents without a character map, or anything even remotely technically approximate to a character map?

Yours truly, Grumpy!