Writing Coptic in Firefox with spell checking support

Firefox

Since newer version of firefox (starting from version 3.0) use hunspell as default spell checker, it is now possible to use the same coptic dictinary files that I have created for hunspell and OpenOffice.



I have ported the hunspell coptic dictionary files to the format of the add-on file of firefox and thunderbird. Follow the next steps to install a support for spell checking of coptic:

• install unicode font following this link
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• install Coptic keymap for Linux or for Windows
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• install the latest version of firefox
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• install the addon for coptic spell checking
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• Choose another user interface font that has coptic unicode support
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That's it. When entering coptic text (for example when filling a text area or writing an email with a web interface), first choose the coptic keyboard, then mark the text you want to check, and then choose "cop-Eg" as language. I have submitted a batch to mozilla, that should makes firefox "aware" of Coptic in newer versions. Which means selecting a special interface font only for coptic should be possible.

Thunderbird

Current stable version of thunderbird seems to be still using the older spell checker (not hunspell). I have compiled current development version of thunderbird and noticed, that this one uses hunspell (see screen shot below).
I hope that in future versions, hunspell will be used. The installation steps would be similar to those described above with firefox.

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last updated: 04.11.2009
Moheb Mekhaiel