Gucharmap

Gucharmap is a super handy open-source app designed for the popular GNOME desktop environment. It's all about helping you explore the Unicode Character Database (UCD) with ease.

Explore Characters with Ease

This application lets you check out detailed info on specific characters and letters. You can find general character properties and different representations too! Thanks to the GTK+ toolkit, Gucharmap supports nice anti-aliased and scalable fonts using Xft, which is the X11 FreeType interface library.

Navigate with Simple Searches

With Gucharmap, you can browse characters based on Unicode scripts or blocks. If you're looking for a particular letter or character, just use any search string. The app can search through character details or match whole words. Plus, you can jump to a specific character using code points and even magnify it by right-clicking!

Easy Font Switching

You can quickly switch between fonts using your keyboard or mouse. Want to navigate through characters? Just right-click! You can view fonts in detail at any size and identify characters copied to your system clipboard or the default X11 selection.

Copying Made Simple

If you need to copy single characters or even groups of words (like phrases), Gucharmap makes it easy to send them to your clipboard. You can also drag and drop characters right from the map into other applications, or pull a letter into Gucharmap to identify it.

Font Insights

A neat feature of Gucharmap is that it shows which font is used for rendering a certain character. It works great with the GNOME desktop environment, letting users sort views by script or Unicode block. You can display only glyphs of a font, search easily, zoom in and out, and snap columns to Power of Two from the app's panel entry.

Your Go-To Character Map App

In short, Gucharmap is an awesome character map tool for GNOME users! It supports tons of character encodings and offers a quick way to copy those unique characters into other apps.