GNOME Character Map


Table of Contents
Introduction
Using GNOME Character Map
Known Bugs and Limitations
Authors
License

Introduction

GNOME Character Map is a program that allows you to select ASCII characters. With GNOME Character Map, you can also use high ASCII characters that you cannot type with your keybord. 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 ASCII characters to stdout 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.

NoteCross-Platform Support
 

GNOME Character Map will also work in other Unix platforms like FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. because GNOME Character Map's source code is completely ANSI and POSIX compliant. It should be possible to compile it on Win32 without any changes, but I'm not sure.

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 1.1.0 of GNOME Character Map.