Charmap
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Charmap is a character map. It is developed using the GNUstep development
environment (www.gnustep.org) and is meant to contribute to GNUstep's promise
towards a desktop environment. For installation, read INSTALL. Details follow.

Charmap offers font selection, allowing one to easily see all the
glyphs which a particular font offers. 

Perhaps Charmap's biggest advantage is its support for displaying Unicode
information.


Unicode support
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Charmap can display all Unicode characters up to code point 0xFFFF. Support for
all of the Unicode 4.0 standard may come if the GNUstep libraries implement
use of the higher ranges.

Charmap is different than most character maps in that it uses the files which
document the Unicode standard to display a wealth of information to the user.
By inspecting a character the user will be able to view the character's name,
decomposition, UTF-8 and octal representation, and cross-references. Viewing a
CJK character (a character belonging to the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean
languages) will display the character's meaning, stroke count, and pronunciation
in the languages in which it is used.

At this time only a few of these values are shown in Charmap. For instructions
on viewing CJK information, see INSTALL.

Christopher Culver <crculver@users.sourceforge.net>