This program allows characters to be displayed by Unicode block or script type.

An important part of the code, the unicode browser widget itself, is available in the library libgucharmap.

This library is included in various other applications in order to have a built in character browser.

Version 0.1 of the program was released on December 13, 2002, with basic Unicode font viewing capabilities which were slowly developed.

Two months later on September 10 version 1.0.0 was released with bug fixes and translation updates for inclusion with GNOME 2.4.