Re: BiDi extension for Mozilla MailNews and for Thunderbird

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion dot ac dot il> wrote:
> 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).

I know at least one person, Ayman Hourieh (he's already on this list),
would be very interested in this topic as is noted in this thread,

  http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/August/msg00001.html

Thanks for bringing up this topic to our attention and following up.

Regards,

 - Nadim



		
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