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Kchmviewer

Kchmviewer is a free, open-source CHM (MS HTML help) and EPUB viewer written in C++ for Unix, Mac and Windows systems. Unlike most existing CHM viewers for Unix, it uses Trolltech Qt widget library, and could optionally be compiled for better KDE integration.

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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The latest version (7.7) is from 2016.

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  1.  Portable
  2.  In-document search

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Sam Lander
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Lightweight and added functionality to the chm viewer included with Windows.

u-235
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This is the best program for viewing CHM and EPUB.

arsCynic
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Supports searching throughout an entire chm file and not just the open page.

Xichen Li
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Detect the encoding of Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows correctly on Windows with Chinese locale

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What is Kchmviewer?

Kchmviewer is a free, open-source CHM (MS HTML help) and EPUB viewer written in C++ for Unix, Mac and Windows systems. Unlike most existing CHM viewers for Unix, it uses Trolltech Qt widget library, and could optionally be compiled for better KDE integration. It does not require KDE, but may be compiled with KDE widget support. Since version 5.0 it uses the Webkit API to show the content.

The main advantage of kchmviewer is the best support for non-English languages. Unlike other viewers, kchmviewer in most cases is able to correctly detect the chm file encoding and show it. It correctly shows the index and table of context in Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Korean, Chinese and Arabic help files, and with new search engine is able to search in any chm file no matter what language it is written.

kchmviewer is written by George Yunaev, and is licensed under GNU General Public License version 3. It uses chmlib to handle the CHM files, and some ideas from xchm.

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