---
name: "gucharmap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gucharmap"
version: "1:15.1.5-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gucharmap"
---

# gucharmap(1)

Unicode character picker and font browser

## NAME

gucharmap - Unicode character picker and font browser

## SYNOPSIS

**gucharmap** \[*OPTION...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**gucharmap** allows you to browse through all the available Unicode characters and categories for the installed fonts, and to examine their detailed properties.

## OPTIONS

- **--font**

  Font to start with, ex: 'Serif 27'

- **--display=DISPLAY**

  X display to use

**gucharmap** also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

## AUTHORS

**gucharmap** was written by Noah Levitt \<nlevitt@columbia.edu\> and others.

This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson \<sa@whiz.se\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

## SEE ALSO

[**gtk-options**(7)](/gtk-options/7.md), [**gnome-options**(7)](/gnome-options/7.md)

The online documentation available through the program's *Help* menu.