Unicodify – Text transformer 0.6
by Teal Dulcet, rugk
Easily and quickly autocorrect common symbols as ¼, transform text to “Unicode fonts” and change the casing.
About this Add-on
For instance, it converts quotes like
"these"
to “these”
, which are typographically correct.Additionally, you can convert text into more than 20 different font styles and casing changes.
You can enable and disable any features in the options and adjust more settings regarding the behavior of the add-on.
⚠️ This extension requires at least Thunderbird 111 for the context menu to work in the compose body due to Bug 1716976.
Convert text to any style you want!
Just select text, right-click and let Unicodify convert the text into styles like:
- Lowercase
- Uppercase
- Capitalize Each Word
- Toggle Case
- Superscript
- Small Caps
- Unicase
- Serif
- Sans-serif
- Bold
- Italic
- Script
- Fraktur
- Monospace
- Double-struck
- Circled
- Squared
- Fullwidth
✍️ Improve your typographic style! ✍️
When writing on any e-mail, this add-on optionally corrects your writing by using proper quotation marks or common symbols like arrows, fractions or mathematical signs.
Some examples:
...
is corrected into…
~=
is corrected into≅
+-
is corrected into±
-+
is corrected into∓
>=
is corrected into≥
1/4
is corrected into¼
-->
is corrected into⟶
<==>
is corrected into⟺
- and much more…
ℹ️ The Unicode autocorrection feature is experimental and must be enabled in the settings.
More Features
- Unicode autocorrection as you type:
- Autocorrect Unicode symbols (i.e. hyphens
--
with –, fractions1/4
with ¼, etc.). Supports more
than 85 symbols. - Use Unicode smart quotes ('single quotes' with ‘Unicode single quotes’ and "double quotes" with “Unicode double quotes”)
- Convert fractions and mathematical constants to Unicode characters (i.e.
1234.25
with 1234¼, etc.). Supports all Unicode fraction characters, Pi and e constants. - Supports undoing autocorrections
- Autocorrect Unicode symbols (i.e. hyphens
- Context menu with selected/highlighted text:
- Unicode font conversion. Supports more than 20 fonts.
- Change casing (i.e. UPPER CASE, lower case, tOGGLE cASE, etc.). Supports all locales.
- Optionally show a live preview.
- Very fast, even when typing on large e-mails.
- Supports the light/dark mode of your system automatically.
- Follows the Firefox and Thunderbird Photon Design.
- Puts your privacy first and does not send data anywhere.
- Translated into several languages. Contribute your own language!
- Settings can be managed by your administrator.
Development
The add-on is free/libre open-source software and developed on GitHub. Fork it on GitHub and contribute.
There are some easy issues to start with.
This extension works with modern Firefox and Thunderbird v87 or higher.
Contribute
You can easily get involved in this project and help. Here are some ideas:
- Translate this add-on into multiple languages!
- Fix some easy issues and get started in add-on development (or just try out the development version)
- Or check out some other add-on issues (or translate them).
Permissions
This add-on requires as few permissions as possible.
An explanation of all permissions, this add-on requests, can be found on this site.