This is the README for gucharmap.

gucharmap is a featureful unicode character map. You can get the
latest version from http://gucharmap.sourceforge.net/


COMPILING

gucharmap uses GTK+ 2.2 or later, which you can get from
http://gtk.org/. 

If GNOME is available, gucharmap uses it, but only to make the Help
menu.

To compile and install, do the usual

   ./configure
   make
   make install

There are two extra ./configure options:

  --disable-gnome disables GNOME-only functionality, even if the GNOME
    libraries are found. 

  --disable-unihan disables CJK ideograph information. The ideograph
    information includes definition and pronunciations in several
    languages, and is extracted from [3]. Omitting the ideograph
    information will reduce gucharmap's size by roughly 2 megabytes.


GUCHARMAP INPUT METHOD

What is this thing? Open up, for example, gedit. Right-click in the
editable area. Hover over "Input Methods". The list of input methods
you currently have available will pop up. If you try a couple, you'll
see what they do.

Most of these affect what happens when you type in the window. The
gucharmap input method is a little different. It opens up a gucharmap
window. When you double-click on a character, it goes directly into
your document.

Installation overwrites the system-wide input module cache file,
normally /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules. (This is the right thing to do,
see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112099.)

You will want to add ${prefix}/lib/gtk-2.0/$(GTK_BINARY_VERSION)/immodules,
the directory where the input modules are installed, to your
system-wide GTK_PATH.



CREDITS

gucharmap is Copyright (c) 2003 Noah Levitt, and is licensed to you
under the terms of the GPL. See the file COPYING.

Large portions of gucharmap are taken from files published by
unicode.org. I think these portions are licensed under the terms of
the Unicode copyright http://unicode.org/unicode/copyright.html,
although I'm not entirely sure I have to say that. :)

Data was gathered from the following URLs:
[1] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Blocks.txt
[2] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
[3] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Unihan.zip
[4] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt

gucharmap was influenced by Juliusz Chroboczek's ucm
(http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/ucm-0.3.tar.gz), the
Windows charmap, and GNOME's gcharmap.


Noah Levitt <nlevitt аt columbia.edu>
$Id: README,v 1.14 2003/05/03 22:22:30 nlevitt Exp $
