Gucharmap /guwˈtʃaɹˌmæp/

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Gucharmap is the GNOME Character Map, based on the Unicode Character Database.

IRC: #unicode on irc.gnome.org

Features

• Browse characters by Unicode block or script
• Display information about each character:
  • Unicode code point
  • Unicode character name
  • Unicode category
  • Unicode canonical decomposition
  • Useful representations
    • UTF-8 encoding (e.g. 0xE2 0x86 0x90)
    • UTF-16 encoding (e.g. 0x2190)
    • C octal escaped UTF-8 (e.g. \342\206\220)

    • XML decimal entity (e.g. ←)

  • For CJK ideographs (unless not compiled in):
    • definition
    • Mandarin pronunciation
    • Cantonese pronunciation
    • Tang pronunciation
    • Korean pronunciation
    • Japanese Kun pronunciation
    • Japanese On (“Sino-Japanese”) pronunciation
• Search for a character by any name and other information
• Jump to a character by code point
• View in any font at any point size, switch among fonts quickly
• Identify the first character from the clipboard or X selection
• Copy strings of characters chosen from the table to the clipboard and X selection
• Drag selection into the character map to identify a character
• Drag and drop out of the character map
• Magnify the active character
• See which font is actually being used to draw each character’s glyph
• The character map is a GTK+ widget, and can be used in other programs

Download

• GNOME FTP: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gucharmap/

• GNOME git: git://git.gnome.org/gucharmap

• Browse the source with GNOME cgit

Development

Links to stuff gucharmap uses:

• GTK+

• GNOME (optional)

• Unicode:

  • Blocks.txt

  • NamesList.txt

  • Scripts.txt

  • UnicodeData.txt

  • Unihan.zip

Related Things

Desktop Applications:

• Unibook™ Character Browser for Windows

• Microsoft Character Map and Private Character Editor for Windows

• KDEUtils' KCharSelect

• SIL ViewGlyph — Font Viewing Program

• Juliusz Chroboczek’s ucm

• umap, a Unicode clipboard filler

• Lord Pixel’s Unicode Font Info for Mac OS X

• UnicodeChecker for Mac OS X

• (DEPRECATED) GnomeUtils's gcharmap, the (OLD) GNOME Character Map

• (DEPRECATED) KCharMap, the (OLD) KDE Character Map

Web Applications:

• decodeunicode, the open science database

• UniView and other stuff by Richard Ishida

Projects:

• Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems

• Unicode

• The unicode-translation project (in progress; see also the unicode-translation textual domain and unicode-han-translation textual domain at the Translation Project)