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<refmiscinfo class="date">16 Sep 2008</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
