GNOME Character Map

Gucharmap

Screenshot of Gucharmap 3.18.2
Developer(s)	Noah Levitt
Stable release	3.18 (September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23)) [±]
Preview release	3.19.3 (December 16, 2015 (2015-12-16)) [±]
Operating system	Unix-like, OS X, Windows
Type	Character map
License	GPL (free software)
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap

Main article: GNOME Core Applications

GNOME Character Map, formerly known as Gucharmap, is a Unicode character map program, part of GNOME. This program allows characters to be displayed by unicode block or script type. It includes brief descriptions of related characters and occasionally meanings of the character in question. Gucharmap can also be used to input or enter characters (by copy and paste). The search functionality allows the use of several search methods, including by unicode name or code point of the character. It is built on the GTK+ Toolkit and can be run on any platform supported by GTK+. A number of text programs use Gucharmap for character input.

History

Version 0.1 of the program was released on December 13, 2002 with basic Unicode font viewing capabilities which were slowly developed. On July 2, 2003 it was decided that gucharmap would be included in Gnome 2.4. Two months later on September 10 version 1.0.0 was released with bug fixes and translation updates for inclusion with Gnome 2.4.

See also

• Private Character Editor
• Character Map (equivalent program bundled with Windows)
• BabelMap (freeware program for Windows with similar functions)
• KCharSelect (equivalent program for KDE)

External links

• Project page at GNOME development website
• Description page at the Ubuntu documentation site