Simple jquery plugin to insert special characters

Question

Does anyone know of a simple jquery plugin to allow special characters such as ½, ¼, ¾, Õ, ™ etc. (UTF-8 only) to be inserted into a textarea field?

I was thinking of writing it myself, but I thought I'd ask here first. I can't seem to find anything thru Google searching. I'd need a modal to allow someone to select a special character and then inset that into a textarea. This would be purely text based UTF-8 character encoding. HTML editors such as CKEditor, TinyMCE, Markitup can not be used as they are too complex for the owner of the system/project.

Answer 1

How about http://keith-wood.name/keypad.html