besides different fonts, there are many times you might want to type a foreign word with accents.... cedillá...schön...

Here is a site which show 'most' of the special characters that you can use on a PC machine. http://www.theworldofstuff.com/characters/

it allows me to ☺☻♥ ♦ ♣ ♠• ◘ ○ ∞ Ầ Ç Ø etc (I can either use the code or copy & paste FROM the chart)

I have saved a copy of the chart to my own machine so that I do not have to access that site every time I want to see the chart.

I have my browsers...(both Opera and Firefox) set up to load my previous list of open pages, so whatever I had open when I shut down will be there when I re-start.
(Opera has this ability built in...Firefox requires you to get an 'extension' called "session saver".)
   Thus, when I start, Mudcat, my wood collectors site, the character chart, a freeware site, and whatever else I had that I might want to go back to are available without searching thru bookmarks, etc.