Unicode in Photoshop CS3 Text Layer - doable ?

Hi. How can i use unicode characters within a Photoshop CS3 text
layer? An example: In Word, i can type
261A
followed by
[Alt-key] C
then i see an unicode character in Word (the =84left-pointing hand=93).

This does not work in Photoshop. I also cannot copy-paste the unicode
character from Word to Photoshop.

What i can do of course:
- do a screenshot of the character
- =84print=93 the character to PDF and im****t it hi-res to Photoshop

But is it not possible to type in unicode directly. On the net, i
didn=92t find a compact solution.

Is there a way to insert unicode smoothly to a PS text layer?

Btw, I=92d like unicode not so much for foreign languages, more for
symbols (I know there are symbol font sets like Dingbats that don't
require unicode). To look up unicode, i use decodeunicode.org and
unicode.org. What else do you recommend to find interesting unicode
symbols, web sites or freeware (for Windows)?

Thanks!