Type in accented letters, international characters or symbols into Firefox or Thunderbird, either simply by using a context menu (there being support for many languages), or quickly by keyboard macro (you can even define your own). For example, the three keystrokes to compose e-circumflex are: e ^ INSERT. Or in two keystrokes as: e alt-F7.
abcTajpu supports the CEN Multilingual European Subset, and was developed for European Language Day.
abcTajpu can run with its default configuration, or choose languages and hot keys. To add language specific menus - from tools.abcTajpu tick the checkboxes for the languages you wish to appear in context menus, then click ok or X to cancel.
Beyond that, power users can open tools.abcTajpu, and choose the radiobox for the hot key desired and suitable for your system (noting that this takes effect on newly opened windows).
With a hot key setup (a function key or the insert key), you don`t need to use the context menu, you can just type in an internet form for example a`INSERT to get a a-grave. (Not all hot keys will work with all systems or with all addons).
There are fast hot keys, which can be turned off if they collide with other extensions. For example, alt-F2 for umlaut, alt-F7 for circumflex, alt-F8 for tilde, alt-F10 for acute, alt-F11 for grave.
When on a form, try alt-F1 (or shift-alt-F1) for a European keyboard. Also, control-alt-F1 to enter the hex number of any Unicode letter; and shift-control-alt-F1 to show the Unicode numbers of any selected text.
Requirements:
· Firefox 3.5 to 4.0b7
· Thunderbird 2.0 to 3.1.*
· SeaMonkey 2.0 to 2.0.*
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Add polytonic Greek menu * Made abcTajpu context menu optional to avoid clutter
· Fixed Italian locale