# Manual do mapa de caracteres

## Introdución

The Character Map application allows you to insert special characters into a document or a text field. Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Use Character Map to access characters that are not available on your keyboard.

Character Map displays all the characters are available in all of the language scripts on your system, using the Unicode character set. Unicode is a character set standard with the goal to include all of the characters that are used in all of the written languages in the world.

## Comezando

### Para iniciar o Mapa de caracteres

You can start Character Map in the following ways:

Menú Aplicativos

- Seleccione Accesorios Mapa de caracteres.

Liña de ordes

- Execute a seguinte orde: `gnome-character-map`

### Cando inicia o mapa de caracteres

Cando inicie o Mapa de caracteres, mostrarase a seguinte xanela.

#### Xanela do mapa de caracteres

Mostra a xanela do mapa de caracteres.

A xanela do Mapa de caracteres contén os seguintes elementos:

Barra de menú

- Os menús na barra de menú contén a maior parte das ordes que precisa para traballar co Mapa de caracteres.

Barra de ferramentas

- A barra de ferramentas contén unha lista despregábel de tipos de letra, botóns de estilos de tipos, e unha caixa incrementábel de ampliación.

Área de visualización

- O área de visualización contén os seguintes compoñentes:

  - Caixa de lista Escritura ou bloque Unicode

  - Sección de lapelas da Táboa de caracteres

  - A sección de Detalles de carácter

  - caixa de texto Texto a copiar

  - botón Copiar

Barra de estado

- A barra de estado mostra o carácter Unicode seleccionado actualmente e o nome do carácter Unicode.

## Uso

### Para cambiar a lista do conxunto de caracteres

To list the character sets by script name, choose View By Script.

To list the character sets by Unicode block, choose View By Unicode Block.

### Para crear unha cadea de texto

To create a text string in the Text to copy field, perform the following steps:

1. Select a character set from the Script or Unicode Block list box.

2. Inserte os caracteres un a un da seguinte forma:

   - Double-click on a character button in the Character Table tabbed section, to insert the character in the Text to copy field.

   - Select a character button in the Character Table tabbed section, then press Return to insert the character in the Text to copy field.

   - Select a character button in the Character Table tabbed section, then click and drag the character to the Text to copy field.

   - Click on the Text to copy field to give focus to the field. If a text string is already in the field, click on the text string at the point where you want to insert the character. Press a character key on your keyboard to insert that character into the field.

### Para copiar e peigar a súa cadea de texto nun aplicativo

To copy and paste the text string from the Text to copy field into an application, perform the following steps:

1. Click Copy. If none or all of the text string is selected, all of the string is copied to the clipboard. If a portion of the string is selected, only that portion is copied.

2. Switch to your application and choose Edit Paste, or press shortcut key Ctrl V.

When you paste the contents of the Text to copy field into other applications, the text string appears in the current character set of the application.

If your text string contains non-visible characters, you can only insert the text string into applications that support the full character set.

### Para buscar un caracter

Para buscar un caracter, realice os seguintes pasos:

1. Seleccione Buscar Buscar ou prema o atallo de teclado Ctrl F. Abrirase o diálogo Buscar.

2. Escriba o texto no campo de Busca

   - Seleccione Concidir coa palabra enteira para só buscar palabras completas que coincidan co seu texto.

   - Por omisión, só se buscan os nomes de caracteres. Seleccione Buscar nos detalles do caracter para buscar noutras partes dunha descrición do caracter, como notas, equivalencias e equivalencias aproximadas.

3. Prema o botón Seguinte para atopar a primeira aparición do seu texto tralo caracter seleccionado actualmente. O Mapa de caracteres selecciona os caracteres que atopa.

4. Prema Seguinte para atopar o seguinte caracter coincidente. De forma alternativa, seleccione Buscar Buscar seguinte, ou prema o atallo de teclado Ctrl G.

5. Prema Anterior para atopar o caracter coincidente anterior. De forma alternativa, elixa Buscar Buscar anterior ou prema o atallo de teclado Maiús Ctrl G.

### Para examinar tódolos caracteres

Para examinar o mapa de caracteres, use o menú Ir.

- Seguinte caracter, ou prema o atallo de teclado Ctrl N.

- Previous character, or press shortcut key Ctrl P.

- Next script, or press shortcut key Ctrl Page Down.

- Previous script, or press shortcut key Ctrl Page Up.

You can browse the character map by individual character, and script or by Unicode block. This depends on whether the character map is showing scripts or Unicode blocks. To change this, choose View By Script or View By Unicode Block.

As teclas seguintes tamén funcionan para examinar o mapa de caracteres:

- Press the arrow keys on the keyboard to browse through the characters.

- Press the Page Up and Page Down keys to browse through the characters page by page.

- Press the Home key to select the first character in the Unicode sequence. To select the last character, press the End key.

### Para mostrar información detallada sobre un caracter

To display detailed information about a character, perform the following steps:

1. Select a character set from the Script or Unicode Block list box. Example: Basic Latin

2. Select a character from the Character Table tabbed section. Example: B

3. Prema na sección con lapelas Detalles do caracter.

The Character Details tabbed section displays the following information about the selected character:

- Punto de código Unicode

  Exemplo: U+0042

- Nome do caracter Unicode

  Exemplo: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B

- Propiedades xerais do carácter

  - Categoría Unicode

    Exempo: Letra, Maiúscula

- Varias representacións útiles

  - Codificación UTF-8

    Exemplo: 0x42

  - Codificación UTF-16

    Exemplo: 0x0042

  - Codificación UTF-8 escapada octal C

    Example: \102

  - Entidade decimal XM

    Example: "&#66"

- Anotacións e referencias cruzadas

  Exemplo: U+212C SCRIPT CAPITAL B

  Click on the link to display the details for the referenced character.

### To Change the Format of a Character

To change the format of a character, perform any of the following steps:

- To change the font, select a font from the font drop-down list.

- To change the font type to bold type, click on the Bold button, or press shortcut key Alt B.

- To change the font type to italic type, click on the Italic button, or press shortcut key Alt I.

- To increase the font size, choose View Zoom In or use the zoom spin box, or press shortcut key Ctrl+.

- To decrease the font size, choose View Zoom Out or use the zoom spin box, or press shortcut key Ctrl-.

- To display normal font size, choose View Normal Size, or press shortcut key Ctrl=.

- To magnify the selected character, hold Shift.

### To Change the Format of the Character Table

To change the format of the character table, choose View Snap Columns to Power of Two.

Character Map changes the Character Table tabbed section so that the number of columns is a power of two, for example, two columns, four columns, eight columns, and so on. The number of columns depends on the size of the window and the size of the font.