[TAG] Accented characters

[Jimmy O'Regan]

On 16 November 2010 05:12, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:46:12AM +0530, Dr. Parthasarathy S wrote:
>> ?I do send and receive mails frequently in French. ?I use
>> Thunderbird, or Google mail web interface.
>>
>> How do I add diacritical marks (accent marks) in the text ?
>
> No personal experience with it, but - try the Zombie Keys add-on for
> Firefox. It's supposed to be designed for exactly that reason.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2335/
>

There's also the diacritic restoration tool: http://accentuate.us/

The backend of it is available here,
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lingala/ - if you want to do some
offline restoration. It supports over 100 languages, including French
(and the author is a friend of mine :)

>> PS: Why do people become so lazy as they grow up ? ;-)
>
> The word is "efficient". At least that's the story I tell myself. :)
>
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