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GNOME Character Map Manual V2.3
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GNOME Character Map Manual V2.2
August 2002

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GNOME Character Map Manual V2.0
March 2002

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GNOME Documentation Project

GNOME Character Map Manual
2000

Hongli Lai, Dan Mueth h.lai@chello.nl, d-mueth@uchicago.edu

GNOME Documentation Project

This manual describes version &appversion; of &app;.

## Introduction

The &app;
application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into applications such as text editor documents.

&app; works primarily with the ISO-8859-1 Latin 1 character set. The application also provides options to work with some non-Latin character sets, such as Cryllic. The application provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters are not available on a standard keyboard.

## Getting Started

The following sections describe how to start using &app;.

### To Start &app;

You can start &app; in the following ways:

Applications menu

  Choose Accessories Character Map .

Command line

  Type `gnome-character-map`, then press Return.

### When You Start &app;

When you start &app;, the following window is displayed.

#### &app; Window

Character Map main window. Shows menubar, toolbar, and character buttons.

The &app; window contains the following elements:

Menubar

  The menubar contains standard GNOME windows menus.

Toolbar

  The toolbar contains the following items:

  - The Font button enables you to select the font type and size that you want to use to display the characters in the character table.

  - The Page spin box enables you to display multiple pages of characters if necessary.

  - The Text to copy field enables you to create the text string that you want to copy into another application.

  - The Copy button enables you to copy the full text string from the Text to copy field into a buffer. You can enter characters into the Text to copy field either from the keyboard or from the character table.

Character table

  The character table contains buttons for the ISO-8859-1 character set.

Statusbar

  The statusbar is located along the bottom edge of the window. The statusbar displays the ASCII code of the character in the character table that has focus.

## Usage

### To Create a Text String

To create a text string in the Text to copy field, you can insert characters in the following ways:

- Click on a character button in the character table to insert the character in the Text to copy field.

- Click on the Text to copy field to give focus to the field. If a text string is already in the field, click on the text string at the point where you want to insert the character. Press a character key on your keyboard to insert that character into the field.

- Choose Characters Browse to open the Select Character dialog. Use the spin box in the dialog to specify an ASCII character in the range 0 to 255. This range includes non-visible characters that are not available in the character table. Click Insert to add the character to the Text to copy field.

### To Copy and Paste Your Text String into an Application

To copy and paste the text string that you create in the Text to copy field into an application, perform the following steps:

1. Drag the pointer to select the text string in the Text to copy field, or click Copy. The selected text string appears highlighted.

2. Point to the location in an application where you want to put the text string and middle-click to insert the text string. You can also paste the text string into the application if a Paste facility is available. You can repeat the insertion as many times as you want while the text string is selected. Click on the Text to copy field to deselect the text string.

When you paste the contents of the Text to copy field into other applications, the text string appears in the current character set of the application.

If your text string contains non-visible characters, you can only insert the text string into applications that support the full character set.

If you quit &app; before you paste the text string into an application, your text string is lost.

### To Clear the Text to Copy Field

To clear the Text to copy field, choose Edit Clear .

### To Change the Input Mode

To change the input mode, right-click on the Text to copy field and select Input Methods. The Insert Unicode control character menu item provides character layout options that are useful for working with non-Latin character sets.