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>   <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
> is a program that
   allows you to select ASCII characters. With <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME
   Character Map</TT
>, you can also use high ASCII characters
   that you cannot type with your keybord. It's similar to Microsoft
   Windows' <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Character Map</TT
>. The difference
   is that <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Gnome Character Map</TT
> is better
   ;-)  
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>   Why did I write <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
>?
   Because there wasn't such a program available for Linux, until 
   now. When I write documents, sometimes I want to use special
   characters like an E-circumflex. To do that, I have to write a
   program that prints all ASCII characters to stdout and copy the
   character to clipboard. I like the Windows' <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Character
   Map</TT
>, because it's easy and fast to use. So I wrote
   one myself for Linux.
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>     <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
> will also
     work in other Unix platforms like FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. because
     <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
>'s source code is
     completely ANSI and POSIX compliant. It should be possible to
     compile it on Win32 without any changes, but I'm not sure.
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>   To run <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
>, select
   <B
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>GNOME Character Map</B
> from the
   <B
CLASS="GUISUBMENU"
>Utilities</B
> submenu of the <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Main
   Menu</B
>, or type <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>gcharmap</B
> on the
   command line. 
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>   <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
> is included in the
   <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>gnome-utils</TT
> package, which is part of the
   GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version
   1.1.0 of <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
>.
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