You know what I'm taking about. Discuss.

Just kidding. Here's my question: How do I access the characters in some of my fonts? Usually when I try to use some kind of webdings-style font in PS I can't access the characters displayed in the font preview in (I use a mac) fontbook. I've been told these are "pi" fonts or something and that I can use the International palette thingy to use these fonts but the ones I want don't show up in the list. Can someone please help me here?