In Illustrator, go under the Type menu to Glyphs; that'll show you the full character set for a font. Just double-click a letter to insert it into an active text field in the document.
Very impressed by all the hard work you've done. I know what that's like
Hm, I'm listening to one of the two Audio Commentariesn and they said they translated nearly everything in the movie trough Babelfish (the Altavista tool)