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<refentry id="gnome-character-map-1">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>gnome-character-map</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">16 Sep 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>charmap</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>gnome-character-map</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>insert special characters into a document</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="gnome-character-map-1-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refname>charmap</refname>

<refname>gnome-character-map</refname>

<refpurpose>insert special characters into a document

</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv id="gnome-character-map-1-synp"><title>&synp-tt;</title>

<cmdsynopsis><command>&cmd;</command>

<arg><option>-font=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option role="nodash"><replaceable>gnome-std-options</replaceable></option></arg>

</cmdsynopsis></refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

The Character Map 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 other applications,

such as text editor documents.

</para>

<para>

Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special

symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters are not available on

a standard keyboard.

</para>

<para>

Note: The gucharmap application also provides a library called libgucharmap.

This library is licensed under GPL. Please see the license file at

/usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-character-map/COPYING.bz2 for implications when writing

a program which uses this library.

</para>

<para>

<refentrytitle>charmap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>

and

<refentrytitle>gnome-character-map</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>

have been deprecated and are now symbolic links to &cmd;.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-opts"><title>&opts-tt;</title>

<para>

The following options are supported:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="medium">

<varlistentry>

<term><option>-font=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></term>

<listitem><para>

Specify the font name and point size that you want to use to display the

characters in the character table, when you start Character Map.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><option role="nodash"><replaceable>gnome-std-options</replaceable></option></term>

<listitem><para>

Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-std-options</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

for more information.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-exam"><title>&exam-tt;</title>

<example role="example">

<title>Launching Character Map</title>

<para>

<screen>example% <userinput>&cmd; </userinput></screen>

</para></example>

<example role="example">

<title>Launching Character Map With Specified Font Name and Point Size</title>

<para>

<screen>example% <userinput>&cmd; <option>-font="bitstream vera sans italic 20"</option></userinput></screen>

</para></example>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-exit"><title>&exit-tt;</title>

<para>

The following exit values are returned:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="xtranarrow">

<varlistentry>

<term><returnvalue>0</returnvalue></term>

<listitem><para>

Application exited successfully

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><returnvalue>>0</returnvalue></term>

<listitem><para>

Application exited with failure

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>

The following files are used by this application:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/bin/&cmd;</filename></term><listitem>

<para>Executable for Character Map.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/bin/charmap</filename></term><listitem>

<para>Symbolic link to <command>&cmd;</command>.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/bin/gnome-character-map</filename></term><listitem>

<para>Symbolic link to <command>&cmd;</command>.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-character-map/COPYING.bz2</filename></term><listitem>

<para>Location of license file</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>

See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><para>Availability</para></entry>

<entry><para>desktop/character-map/gucharmap</para></entry></row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry></row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>bzip2</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-std-options</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

<para><citetitle>Character Map Manual</citetitle></para>

<para>Latest version of the <citetitle>GNOME Desktop User Guide</citetitle>

for your platform.</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<varlistentry>

<literal>http://www.fsf.org/licensing/</literal>

</varlistentry>

<variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gnome-character-map-1-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>

Written by Glynn Foster, updated by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003,

2007, 2008.

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>