I want to see different font layouts in keyboard viewer

Up until Mac OS 10.4.x it was possible to look for different keyboard layouts in different fonts. This was very handy if you wanted to know, which key combination to press for a certain Zapf Dingbats character.
This feature was already limited with 10.5.x and has disappeared with 10.6.x
I want to have this feature back!
Or How Do You Manage to key in characters from fonts like Zapf Dingbats or Wingdings???
Thanks for any help

Hi Tom!
This is a huge step in the right direction! Thanks!
But it doesn't tell me which keyboard keys represent e.g. the aircraft or a black scissors.
With keyboard viewer I knew , what to keys to hold and what to type. In our case all of our users knew the had to press Shift - 9 (on German keyboard layout) to get the airplane. Now, with 10.6 a new ZapfDingbats , Shift-9 isn't working anymore and no way to see which keys to press.
This slows down the creation process.
So , i stick with my demand for the keyboard viewer as it was in 10.4.x -- although I love to have it as big as it can be in 10.6.x
Thanks again
Holger

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