Im after the equivalent of Character map from Windows in OSX, I'm after certain characters for a project and cannot find anything in my applications folder.
yes im still new to mac after 3months of daily use... 🙁
You can do it via the Character Palette as described in this Apple help document. Although it claims to be 10.4 specific I think it holds true for 10.5 too. You may need to turn on the Input menu in System Preferences (a Google search should tell you how)...