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insert characters and symbols submenu not visible

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happy4
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When composing a new message, "characters and symbols submenu" seems not available any longer since recent update to TB 91.2.1.

Is this an issue on my side or an introduced bug ? 

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 91.2.1
   Build ID: 20211022151957
   Distribution ID: Manjaro
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.2.1
   OS: Linux 5.4.150-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 30 16:13:54 UTC 2021
When composing a new message, "characters and symbols submenu" seems not available any longer since recent update to TB 91.2.1. Is this an issue on my side or an introduced bug ? Name: Thunderbird Version: 91.2.1 Build ID: 20211022151957 Distribution ID: Manjaro User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.2.1 OS: Linux 5.4.150-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 30 16:13:54 UTC 2021

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It's still there on W10 (see picture). The Insert menu only appears in html format, not plain text messages. If your default is plain text, hold Shift when clicking Write or Reply to open the html composer.

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It's still there on W10 (see picture). The Insert menu only appears in html format, not plain text messages. If your default is plain text, hold Shift when clicking Write or Reply to open the html composer.

happy4
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OMG, I didn't think of that ! Some mail accounts I use, are set to plain text, some to html. General default: plain text <Shift> does trick. Thanks !