Unicode Font3D patch allows unicode characters to be drawn on the Text Object. There will come also simple matrix kind of new widget which makes the selection of the characters to be possible.

Wiki pages: http://wiki.blender.org/bin/view.pl/Blenderdev/UnicodeFont3D

In wiki pages there are information about using the new functionality and a bit information what kind of features there will be enabled.

I shall add for a while the True Type font I am using as a test font to the following URL: http://www.akipaki.org/Arialuni.zip

The patch is tested in Linux.