Just an update. I noticed that uiFlow now supports Unicode characters. I'm not sure in which release it was introduced, but I'm now able to add the degree symbol to a label using characters from this site.
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Two drawbacks...
Size is fixed at unicode 24 (similar in size to DejaVu 24).
Unicode 24 is missing from the label set font block
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