You might need to install some more dependencies depending of your type of CentOS install.
(./configre will report what you are missing)
Open a terminal
# FIX DEPENDENCIES
su - root
yum install enchant-aspell enchant-develiso-codes-devel
exit
# DOWNLOAD AND EXTRACT SOURCES
cd ~
wget http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gedit/2.28/gedit-2.28.4.tar.gz
tar -xzf gedit-2.28.4.tar.gz
cd gedit-2.28.4
cd plugins
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/symbol-browser/files/symbol-browser/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-0.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-0.1.tar.gz
# EDIT MAKE AND CONFIGURE FILES
sed -i 's/SUBDIRS =/SUBDIRS = \t\\\n\tsymbolbrowser\t/g' Makefile.am
sed -i 's/DIST_SUBDIRS =/DIST_SUBDIRS =\t\\\n\tsymbolbrowser\t/g' Makefile.am
cd ..
sed -i 's/AC_CONFIG_FILES(\[/AC_CONFIG_FILES(\[\nplugins\/symbolbrowser\/Makefile/g' configure.ac
# BUILD THE PLUGIN
autoconf
automake
./configure
cd plugins/symbolbrowser
make
# COPY TO HOME FOLDER
cp symbolbrowser.gedit-plugin .libs/libsymbolbrowser.so ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/
cp -r symbols ~/.gnome2/gedit/