GNOME Character Map

GNOME Character Map, formerly and internally known as Gucharmap, is a free and open-source software Unicode character map program, being one of the GNOME Core Applications. This program allows characters to be displayed by Unicode block or script type.^[3] 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.

DeveloperNoah Levitt

Stable release

14.0.3^[1]  / 28 March 2022; 3 years ago (28 March 2022)

Operating systemUnix-like

TypeCharacter map

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GNOME Character Map
Developer	Noah Levitt
Stable release	14.0.3[1]  / 28 March 2022; 3 years ago (28 March 2022)
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Character map
License	GPL-3.0-or-later[2]
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gucharmap

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An important part of the code, the unicode browser widget itself, is available in the library libgucharmap. This library is included in various other applications in order to have a built in character browser. Some applications using libgucharmap are Abiword, Gedit (via a plugin) and Bluefish.