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Other Unicode characters than Emojis? #109
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Of course, I'm always for proposals. However, as you also said, the aim of this add-on is to have a picker and other useful features for emojis. Other Unicode letters are, as sorry as I am to say this, out-of-scope of this project. I know, how you imagine this, maybe like GNOME Characters does it with separate groups: However, I e.g. there don't really like that it mixes colorful emojis with these greyscale arrows or so. Despite these project-related issues, some technical things: We use emoji-mart, which is basically the whole core of the add-on, which itself uses emoji-data as a data library. As such, we likely would need to have all searchable Unicodes included there, which is unlikely to happen. That all said first of all it's good of you to open this issue! Because I may always reconsider this feature if there is a high-demand (people upvote it or so). For now, however, I'll close this as "wontfix". |
Thank you for your prompt response! I understand this is a "won't fix" as it is out-of-scope of this add-on (was expecting that). |
When #106 is finished (see rugk/unicodify#2), if you install the new add-on, you will be able to type
If you do not want to wait, you can install a version of this add-on here for testing that does work in Thunderbird and it also includes all the features in the new add-on. Just rename the |
Thanks @tdulcet for this information!
Sounds really good, would be glad to be an early adopter! 👍
There is already a huge list!
I did download the zip file, moved
It did not find the "search" permission (Thunderbird 68.12). Maybe I should open a new issue elsewhere? |
No problem!
The "search" permission is only listed in the Firefox manifest, so I believe you are somehow using the wrong one. Also, I should have mentioned that it requires Thunderbird 78, the current ESR version. |
Thanks all for chiming in here. That said, I'd kindly ask you to please move your discussion regarding Thunderbird (tests) into the issue #49 about Thunderbird, actually. 😃 |
Hi rugk,
Background
I use this add-on on a daily basis and find it frankly awesome. It's super convenient to use and finding appropriate emoji when you are on a desktop computer has never been easier. And as a Thunderbird user, I can't wait for #49 to be implemented!
However, I also use some non emoji unicode characters on a daily basis. Not talking about non ascii characters (Korean, Chinese, ...) but more of symbols like arrows ('⟷', ...), equal signs ('≃', ...), math symbols or simply checks.
Proposed solution
It would be convenient to have new tabs listing some additional unicode character sets (there are plenty of sets). Every character has a name just like emojis so searching by name could work as well (it works as an 'answer' in DuckDuckGo when you type "unicode XXX", see example).
This could be disabled behind a parameter in the options tab as most probably all users won't need such sets (maybe a pick-and-choose manner to select which sets you would like added in your panel? 🤔).
Alternatives
For now I either make use of DuckDuckGo direct answers when I know the unicode character name by heart (but this can reveal being a difficult exercise when asking for greek letters for instance, they have long names like 'Greek Capital Letter Delta' and your are obliged to type the exact unicode name for the answer to show up!).
For some characters, you can have a binding on your keyboard. On belgian keyboards, you can type '≃' by pressing Alt Gr + = but that's not the case on french keyboards for instance (although >95% of the layout being the same).
Additional context
I thought twice before posting this as the Add-on name is "Awesome Emoji pciker", not "Awesome Unicode Characters picker" but watching this repo for a while I have an intuition you aren't against new proposals / discussions.
Greetings from Belgium! 🎉
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