158965 - Insert | Characters and Symbols should include more code blocks

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, enhancement)

Description

[Minh Nguyễn]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020723
BuildID:    20020723

The Insert | Characters and Symbols dialog box should include support for more characters and code blocks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Composer.
2. Go to Insert | Characters and Symbols...

Actual Results:  
The only options are characters in the following Unicode code blocks:
 - Latin 1 Supplement
 - Latin Extended A (Partially?)
 - Latin Extended B (Partially)
 - Latin Extended Additional
 - Currency Symbols (Partially)

Expected Results:  
In addition to the above code blocks, at least these code blocks should have been included, in order to include most of the Latin-based part of Unicode:
 - The rest of Latin Extended A?
 - The rest of Latin Extended B
 - IPA Extensions
 - Parts of General Punctuation (Like en dash, em dash, left single quotation mark, right single quotation mark, left double quotation mark, right double quotation mark, dagger, double dagger, and horizontal elipsis)
 - Parts of Letterlike Symbols (Like trademark sign, degree Fahrenheit, degree Celsius, numero sign, and care of symbol)
 - Parts of Number Forms (Like common vulgar fractions and Roman numerals)

And Greek wouldn't be a bad idea, either.

Using US Region content pack and English (US) language pack.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

great idea! if anyone wants to work on this, that'd be great!

Comment 2

[Minh Nguyễn]

I think most, if not all, of the changes will be in 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/editor/ui/dialogs/content/EdInsertChars.js
 . If Greek is included, then 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/editor/ui/dialogs/content/EdInsertChars.xu
l might need a couple small changes, too.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign to new account

Comment 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Yes, help wanted please.

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420