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@section About Charmap

Charmap is a powerful character map. It is developed using the Openstep
standard, allowing compilation with the GNUstep development
environment (@url{http://www.gnustep.org}) and soon on Mac OSX.
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.

@section Unicode support

Charmap can display all Unicode characters up to code point 0xFFFF. Support for
all of the Unicode 4.0 standard will come shortly.

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 can view the character's name,
UTF-8, octal, and decimal representation.

@section CJK support

If CJK support is installed, viewing a CJK character (a character
belonging to the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean languages) will display
the character's meaning. For instructions on viewing CJK information,
see INSTALL.

Christopher Culver <@email{crculver@@users.sourceforge.net}>
