Comments on: Funny language announcements when reading messages in Thunderbird

By: Ray Foret jr

Ray Foret jr — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:58:35 +0000

I just now began to get my teeth in to Thunderbird after having used Windows Mail under Vista for a little over half a year. I don’t see any way to add a sender to my address book except via the “automatically add card” option under the tools/options/composition tab/addressing tab. I tried all the menues I can get access to but no luck. Also, Is there any way to create an list of various cards in Thunderbird such as one can do in Windows Mail or Outlook Express? thanks. PS. I found the Windows Contact extension to be quite a life saver.

By: Xavier Robin

Xavier Robin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:04:55 +0000

Why not using the spell checking dictionary language to tag messages with the appropriate content-language?

Obviously this would work only when we send a message, but I think it would be pretty accurate.

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By: Donna Hill

Donna Hill — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:14:15 +0000

Hi Marco,
The .txt extention is not on the file name where I can edit it, but appears on the “c:…” path announced when I close the document after making changes.
Donna

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:51:13 +0000

Hi Donna,

ah, that’s why it doesn’t work! NotePad has a tendency to give every file it saves a .txt extension. So what you should do is:
1. Go to the file.
2. hit F2.
3. Remove the .txt extension at the end of the file, so that it really only says Thunderbird.jcf, and Explorer lists it as “Configuration”, not as “NotePad”.

Hope this helps!

By: Donna Hill

Donna Hill — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:07:58 +0000

Hi Marco,
I was using Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 so I upgraded to 2. It still doesn’t work. The file says “Note Pad” and is marked “.txt. Just in case something was amiss with the file, I trashed the file I had and started over, pasting the info from your blog as before. Could there be a setting in Jaws that I need to enable or disable to make files like this work? I even tried putting each entry on a separate line, though you don’t seem to do it that way. The only thing that works is saving the messages as html files, which I can do if all else fails. I haven’t tried your first fix yet. I’m not sure how much of a limitation that would be. . Sorry for being a pest about this.
Donna

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:36:22 +0000

Donna, no, it should be a plain text file, with the first line being left bracket eloq language aliases right bracket, as shown in my original post. Are you using Thunderbird 2 or 3? If you’re using the 3.0 nightlies, you might need to call it thunderbird3.0a1pre.jcf instead of thunderbird.jcf.
Marco

By: Donna Hill

Donna Hill — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:14:51 +0000

Marco,
Thanks for responding so quickly. I moved the file up one level so it’s under Enu, in the list ofPersonalized, Placemarkers, Default and now Thunderbird.jcf. Unfortunately, there’s no change after re booting. I double-checked the file and it’s where it belongs now. I seem to remember reading something about programming saying you need to use or >< before and after things. If that’s what I’m missing, please let me know which one is right. Any other ideas to help me fix this?
Donna

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:28:03 +0000

Hi Donna,

the file must go into the folder that opens when you choose “Explore my Settings”. The PersonalizedSettings folder stores PlaceMarkers and website specific settings, but the JCF file must go into the settings\enu, not settings\enu\PersonalizedSettings. So, simply go into PersonalizedSettings, select Thunderbird.jcf, press CTRL+X to cut to the clipboard, press BACKSPACE to go up one folder level, and CTRL+V to paste the file there.

By: Donna Hill

Donna Hill — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:03:28 +0000

Feb. 22, 2008

Hello Marco,

I’m having a hard time getting your second solution for the Thunderbird funny language problem to work. Under All Programs, I go to the Jaws 8 sub menu, Explore Jaws submenu and my choices are:
Explore my settings, Explore Program files, Explore shared settings and Explore Manual. First, I chose Explore My Settings and under the folder Personalized settings which was empty, I created a text document using Note Pad. I am pasting the exact contents below.
File Name: Thunderbird.jcf
Text (pasted from web site) [Eloq Language Aliases] x-western=American English x-unicode=American English x-central-european=American English
x-cyrillic=American English

I re booted and nothing had changed, so I put a copy of the file under Explore Program files. Again, nothing changed after re booting.

Any clue what I’m doing wrong?

Donna

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:55:32 +0000

No, as far as I know there is no such thing as a common place to share JCF files (or JAWS settings in general). There are a few places where script writers hang out, such as the JAWSScripts mailing list initiated by http://www.blindprogramming.com.

BTW: Thanks for your comment! You’re the first!

By: David Bolter

David Bolter — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:13:24 +0000

Nice post. Nice to see you on planet Mozilla! Marco is there a common place JAWS users go for sharing jcf files?