# GNOME Character Map Manual

Copyright © 2000 by Hongli Lai

# Introduction

`GNOME Character Map` is a program that allows you to select any character available in your current font. With `GNOME Character Map`, you can also use characters that you cannot type with your keybord (such as "extended ASCII characters", or characters with codes greater than 127, for example the copyright symbol). It's similar to Microsoft Windows' `Character Map`. The difference is that `Gnome Character Map` is better ;-)

Why did I write `GNOME Character Map`? Because there wasn't such a program available for Linux, until now. When I write documents, sometimes I want to use special characters like an E-circumflex. To do that, I have to write a program that prints all font characters to stdout (how mad can you be? ;-) and copy the character to clipboard . I like the Windows' `Character Map`, because it's easy and fast to use. So I wrote one myself for Linux.

| Cross-Platform Support
| `GNOME Character Map` will also work in other Unix platforms like FreeBSD, Solaris, etc., as long as Gnome is available for that platform.

To run `GNOME Character Map`, select GNOME Character Map from the Utilities submenu of the Main Menu, or type gcharmap on the command line.

`GNOME Character Map` is included in the `gnome-utils` package, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version 1.4 of `GNOME Character Map`.

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