Why my "Insert characters and symbols" in Thunderbird does not open?
I need Insert Character and Symbols to white in Portuguese because your spellcheck in Portuguese of Brazil is incomplete.
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Are you composing in HTML? You need to be doing so to be able to see the Insert|Characters and Symbols option in the menu.
You may have set to use HTML previously, but I suspect that settings like this one can swap states during an update.
Tools|Account Settings|{select server}|Composition & Addressing→Compose messages in HTML format should be ticked.
But there is another approach. I like the abcTajpu add-on which gives you access to the whole Unicode character set, in both plain text and HTML.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/abctajpu/
This says it's a Firefox add-on but it works in Thunderbird too.
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Are you composing in HTML? You need to be doing so to be able to see the Insert|Characters and Symbols option in the menu.
You may have set to use HTML previously, but I suspect that settings like this one can swap states during an update.
Tools|Account Settings|{select server}|Composition & Addressing→Compose messages in HTML format should be ticked.
But there is another approach. I like the abcTajpu add-on which gives you access to the whole Unicode character set, in both plain text and HTML.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/abctajpu/
This says it's a Firefox add-on but it works in Thunderbird too.
Modified by Zenos
I think that Zenos may have misunderstood the question. In my case (and I suspect in the OP's too) I can see the Insert|Characters and Symbols option as clear as day, but when I click it, nothing happens (unlike the Insert|Mathematical Symbols option, which opens perfectly normally.
Further advice please!
Tried again today, and found that on clicking Insert|Characters and Symbols it opened up normally - very odd! Anyway, relief all round.