Thanks for the suggestions. The final answer seems to be StarOffice Draw/OpenOffice Draw which was able to handle most of the Unicode characters I threw at it. (It did choke on the CJK unified ideographs though.) The user interface is quite poor compared to more polished tools like Illustratorm, but it was adequate for my simple needs.
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