Character Map Startup Options?

[John Jason Jordan <johnxj comcast net>]

I don't know what version of Gnome I have, but it's whatever is
installed on my Ubuntu-64 Breezy computer, which has all the latest
updates. (Planning on upgrading to Dapper after finals in a couple
weeks.)

The Character Map utility default startup options suck. I am a
linguistics major and I need to use it a lot. I need it to come up in
View > By Unicode Block, and with the character displayed at 14 points
instead of the default 20, and to automatically select my favorite IPA
font, instead of the default Sans. I've searched everywhere looking for
command-line options to make this happen, but documentation seems
completely lacking on this. It is highly annoying to have to
reconfigure it every time I launch it. Anyone know what the options
are, or even if there are options, or where there is documentation
explaining the options? Or if said options do not exist, then is there
a Character Map replacement that does what I need?