BiDi extension for Mozilla MailNews and for Thunderbird

[Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion dot ac dot il>]

Hello,

(as was suggested to me when I brought it up in the public IRC session a 
while ago, I'm posting my notice to this list).

We (myself and another developer called Asaf Romano) are working on an 
directionality control extension for Mozilla MailNews and for 
Thunderbird, tentatively named bidimailpack. It adds menu items, 
keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons for switching from RTL to LTR, in 
both message composition and message display. It also contains direction 
auto-detection logic for incoming messages (which searches for the 
presence of an entire word in the Hebrew or the Arabic sections of the 
Unicode charset). It is based on previous work by 'Moofie' (he published 
an extension called 'hebmailpack', which we have further enhanced). The 
current development versions are available here:

for Mozilla suite MailNews:
http://www.earendil.ath.cx/content/bidimailpack-suite-1.2.11.xpi

for Thunderbird:
http://www.earendil.ath.cx/content/bidimailpack-tbird-1.2.12.xpi

Note these are _not_ for release and will undergo changes, probably 
including an integration with the BiDiUI extension for the browser 
(http://bidiui.mozdev.org).


Comments and suggestions are most welcome.

Eyal Rozenberg