Keyword: multilingual
I don’t imagine a like-for-like successor to Zombie Keys, but can anyone suggest extensions – for Chromium, or Firefox – that might be enhanced to work with modernised Thunderbird?
I identified three potential candidates:
Source code is available.
For it to work with Thunderbird, it should, I guess, first work with Firefox 95.0.2 (it does not; I sent an e-mail to the developer).
Not an extension, but since you seem to be on Linux, maybe the Compose key might be of interest to you?
Thanks.
The wish for an extension was more for someone else, than for me. That person seemed more interested in complaining than in any solution, so I removed (from a forum elsewhere) what was previously a cross-reference to this topic.
Still, it will be nice to have an extension.
For myself: years ago I enjoyed the Mac OS X approach to keystrokes for character composition.
When I switched to FreeBSD, I missed the predictability of Apple’s approach.
After I taught myself to use Unicode composition for the non-keyboard characters that I most often use, I made the decision to not learn use of the compose key.
U+2013 for – an en dash, U+2026 for … an ellipsis, and so on.
More specifically: Control-Shift-U
For less memorable compositions, I use KCharSelect:
