Have you got this add-on?

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bidi-mail-ui/ That is about all that is available.

I found the way to properly add in that bidi add on. Not manually but through the web page. So thank you for this. And I am amazed bidi is add-on and not inside the product.

So now we are still left with the Hebrew spelling packs. What am I missing or should I use some other specific release that you provide?

Darshovits said

I found the way to properly add in that bidi add on. Not manually but through the web page. So thank you for this. And I am amazed bidi is add-on and not inside the product.

The add-on has less that 3,000 users. hardly justifies developer resources for so few users.

So now we are still left with the Hebrew spelling packs. What am I missing or should I use some other specific release that you provide?

Did you download the Hebrew version? See https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/

I would assume it comes with the relevant dictionaries installed.

OK....

Keep in mind that 'language packs' change the TB interface, and are separate from dictionaries, used for spell checking. The Hebrew dictionary is here:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/hebrew-spell-checking-dictiona/

Drag the Download Now button and drop it onto Tools/Add-ons/Extensions in TB. If you get an 'incompatible' error message, as you might with TB 60, change the preference extensions.strictCompatibility to false (double-click to toggle) before installing the add-on. The default dictionary is set in Tools/Options/Composition/Spelling.

Dragging the download button is swell idea. But after I did toggle extensions.strictCompatibility in advanced/config editor , it does not work.

Certainly this must be the way to go -- just the editing.

Yes, toggling the preference doesn't work in this case, so we need to apply the old trick of editing the install.rdf file. 1. download the dictionary xpi file and change the extension to .zip, i.e. hebrew_spell_checking_dictionary_from_hspell-1.4.zip 2. extract the install.rdf file from the zip file, open it in a text editor 3. change line 19 so the maxVersion reads: maxVersion>60.0 instead of maxVersion>3.1a1pre (or 60.* to ensure compatibility with future releases of TB 60) 4. save the new install.rdf and add it to the zip, replacing the original one 5. change the zip extension back to xpi 6. in Tools/Add-ons/Dictionaries, click the gear icon next to the search box, Install add-on from file..., select the xpi file (or drag and drop)

See the attached picture; appears to be working on Hebrew text.

Mr. Sfhowes, this is exactly what I was looking for. A workable recipe for having this work for me. Your recipe should hang in big letters next to the pages where people download the program - this maxversion issue that many have been tampering with in Greek and what not.

Language packs in newer versions of THunderbird should now work by default

Wayne Mery said

Language packs in newer versions of THunderbird should now work by default

Correction, dictionaries should work. But Language Packs like https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/hebrew-il-language-pack-thunde/ apparently not.

SUMO folk take note - these add-ons are created by US as part of release automation - but the automation is broken, so the add-ons on ATN have not been updated

sfhowes said

Yes, toggling the preference doesn't work in this case, so we need to apply the old trick of editing the install.rdf file. 1. download the dictionary xpi file and change the extension to .zip, i.e. hebrew_spell_checking_dictionary_from_hspell-1.4.zip 2. extract the install.rdf file from the zip file, open it in a text editor 3. change line 19 so the maxVersion reads: maxVersion>60.0 instead of maxVersion>3.1a1pre (or 60.* to ensure compatibility with future releases of TB 60) 4. save the new install.rdf and add it to the zip, replacing the original one 5. change the zip extension back to xpi 6. in Tools/Add-ons/Dictionaries, click the gear icon next to the search box, Install add-on from file..., select the xpi file (or drag and drop) See the attached picture; appears to be working on Hebrew text.

THANKS!