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Character Map Manual V&manrevision; &date; Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project Unicode Character Map Manual V2.0 October 2003 Chee Bin HOH cbhoh@gnome.org GNOME Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of &app;. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page. gucharmap &app; Character Map The &app; application is a Unicode character map. Unicode is a character set standard with the goal to include all of the characters that are used in all of the written languages in the world. You can use &app; 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 other applications, such as text editor documents. &app; provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters provided by &app; are not available on a standard keyboard. You can start &app; in the following ways: Applications menu Choose AccessoriesCharacter Map. Command line Execute the following command: gnome-character-map When you start &app;, the following window is displayed.

Shows &app; window.

The &app; window contains the following elements: Menubar The menus on the menubar contain most of the commands that you need to work with &app;. Toolbar The toolbar contains a drop-down list of fonts, font style buttons, and a zoom spin box. Display area The display area contains the following components: Script or Unicode Block list box Character Table tabbed section Character Details tabbed section Text to copy text box Copy button Statusbar The statusbar displays information about the selected character. To list the character sets by script name, choose ViewBy Script. To list the character sets by Unicode block, choose ViewBy Unicode Block. To create a text string in the Text to copy field, perform the following steps: Select a character set from the Script or Unicode Block list box. Insert characters in one of the following ways: Double-click on a character button in the Character Table tabbed section, to insert the character in the Text to copy field. Click on a character button in the Character Table tabbed section, then press Return to insert the character in the Text to copy field. Click on a character button in the Character Table tabbed section, then drag the character to 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. To copy and paste the text string from the Text to copy field into an application, perform the following steps: Drag the pointer to select the text string in the Text to copy field, then click Copy. The selected text string appears highlighted. 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 search for a character, perform the following steps: Choose SearchFind. Enter the search string in the Search field in the Find dialog. Click Next. &app; highlights the first character that matches the search criteria, in the Character Table tabbed section. &app; also displays the Unicode code point and Unicode character name in the status bar. If no matching character is found, &app; displays an information alert. Click Next to find the next matching character. Alternatively, choose SearchFind Next. Click Previous to find the previous matching character. Alternatively, choose SearchFind Previous. You can browse through the characters in the Character Table tabbed section in the following ways: Choose GoNext Script or GoNext Block to select the next character set. Choose GoPrevious Script or GoPrevious Block to select the previous character set. Use the scrollbar for the Script or Unicode Block list box to select any character set. Choose GoNext Character to select the next character in the Unicode sequence. Choose GoPrevious Character to select the previous character in the Unicode sequence. Press the arrow keys on the keyboard to browse through the characters. Use the Character Table scrollbar to browse through the characters. Press the Page Up and Page Down keys to browse through the characters page by page. Press the Home key to select the first character in the Unicode sequence. To select the last character, press the End key. To display detailed information about a character, perform the following steps: Select a character set from the Script or Unicode Block list box. Example: Basic Latin Select a character from the Character Table tabbed section. Example: B Click on the Character Details tabbed section. The Character Details tabbed section displays the following information about the selected character: Unicode code point Example: U+0042 Unicode character name Example: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B General Character Properties Unicode category Example: Letter, Uppercase Various Useful Representations UTF-8 encoding Example: 0x42 Octal escaped UTF-8 encoding Example: \102 Decimal entity reference Example: "B" Annotations and Cross References Example: U+212C SCRIPT CAPITAL B Click on the link to display the details for the referenced character. To change the format of a character, perform any of the following steps: To change the font, select a font from the font drop-down list. To change the font type to bold type, click on the Bold button. To change the font type to italic type, click on the Italic button. To increase the font size, choose ViewZoom In or use the zoom spin box. To decrease the font size, choose ViewZoom Out or use the zoom spin box. To display normal font size, choose ViewNormal Size. To magnify the selected character, press Shift. To change the format of the character table, choose ViewSnap Columns to Power of Two. &app; changes the Character Table tabbed section so that the number of columns is a power of two, for example, two columns, four columns, eight columns, and so on. The number of columns depends on the size of the window and the size of the font.