Where is character view in 10.9.4?

I used to have in the old MacBook Air (OS 10.7.5) in the banner in the desktop window next to the computer name/date/clock/battery displays. On the new Air (10.9.4) I got nada. I went through system prefs, lightly googled, found nothing on "help," etc. Is it just gone in this version? I need it because I used accents in Mail, Word, Safari, etc.

The item used to be accessed from System Preferences> International> Input Menu.
Should be there -or in similar location- even now... Did you try a search?
OS X Mavericks: Use input sources to type in other languages
support.apple.com › Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Input ...
search for a language or input source, then select one or more input sources. ...
Spell check foreign languages in Pages 09 MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) ...
OS X Mavericks: Use the Keyboard Viewer - Apple
support.apple.com › From the Input menu (looks like a flag or character) in the menu bar, choose the
input source for the language whose keyboard you want to view. Choose Show ...
OS X Mavericks: Enter special characters and symbols - Apple
support.apple.com ›
Option, Description. Open the Character Viewer: In a document, choose Edit > Special
Characters. Or choose Show Character Viewer from the Input menu ...
OS X Mavericks: Change the language your Mac uses - Apple
support.apple.com › Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Language & Region. ... typed
using the input source that's currently selected in the Input menu (looks like ...
If the Character Viewer isn’t shown in the Input menu, choose Apple menu > System Preferences,
click Keyboard, Keyboard viewer, then select “Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar.”
Hopefully this helps; usually in the installed Help viewer is also a place to look up topics.
Good luck & happy computing!

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where is character viewer in Word 2008 in Lion?
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It allowed using foreign language accents...had math symbols...other cool stuff, even some emitocons (sp?) etc.
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You can also open it from any application, by going to Edit menu (on the menu bar) > Special Characters

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Did you try:
->System Preferences->Keyboard and check [ ] Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar
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Enter special characters and symbols
Use the Character Viewer to enter special characters and symbols, such as mathematical symbols, letters with accent marks, emoticons, arrows and other “dingbats,” into your documents.
You can also use the Character Viewer to enter Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean characters, as well as characters from other languages.
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Open a document, and place the insertion point where you want the special character or symbol to appear.
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Thanks for that suggestion too. Please let me know if you do try and succeed; I'm not sure I have the knowledge.
In fact, in looking on my system I can find no .plist file with CharViewer in it, and it's not obvious any of the .plist files are related. I did find in the system library:
Macintosh HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane
I don't seem to have a Library folder in my Home folder anymore (since Mavericks?). It looks like it now resides at Macintosh HD/Library.
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