Selecting the character you want drops it into your current document. To type a special character, you click on a P in the menu bar and a list of characters appears. PopChar has been around for over 20 years and is a favorite of editors and designers. PopChar X, the little utility that gets all of those funky symbols, accents, and other special characters into your documents without having to remember arcane key codes, has been updated to version 4 for Mac.