Can't add language pack to Thunderbird.

[Lifeiss...@eud.33mail.com]

I've been trying to install a language pack for Thunderbird, so that I
could read a Greek email I received.

At the end is what I think should have worked:
I ended up going to TB Addons, searching on Greek, and dling the
pack as an Addon in TB itself, but though that installed all right, I
still can't read the email I got!! Even when I go to View / Character
encoding / and click on Greek ISO or Greek Windows.

(In fact Greek was listed before I dl'd anything, so was it really of
value to dl the pack?)


Here are a lot of earlier things that did not work. How come?

I clicked on Thunderbird's help and was taken to a webpage,
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird
I put Greek ... in the search box and eventually I found
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Language_packs which has the directory
location wrong, but it still says that one can dl TH language packs
using a web browser, but even though I eventually found xpi.el in two
different Thunderbird directories. I couldnt' do it!!!

Using another helpful page that also dealt with using a webbrowser for
TH language packs, I navigated to:

http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/45.0b2/win32/xpi/

and later to:
http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/38.7.2/win32/xpi/

and clicked on the Greek language pack, and the first couple times I
got a message that "Firefox prevented this site from asking me to
install software on your computer". So I went to Options / Security
and put the url above in and saved it (Now I see that it truncated to
just after net/)

Went back and dl'd it again and this time it gave the message but also
a box with a choice of Allow or Not now. I chose Allow and watched
the progress bar, but at the end it displayed "Greek (Gr) language
pack could not be installed because it is not incompatible with
Firefox 46.0"

Well of course not. I want it to work with Thunderbird, not FF, but
Thunderbird doesn't download specific language packs, does it? Or
anything but program updates, right?

Actually I only have v. 38.7.2 of TB, so I changed the url above from
45.02b to 38.7.2 and yet I got the very same message!!!!!

Also, it just updated my TB, so why don't I have version 45?

Because I have Vista???

Thanks for any help you can give.

[geo]

On 05/03/16 04:04, Lifeiss...@eud.33mail.com wrote:
> I've been trying to install a language pack for Thunderbird, so that I
> could read a Greek email I received.
>

===>

pull greek language add-on from this page;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/greek-gr-language-pack-thunder/versions/

save the xpi to a directory. to install, open add-ons page, click the
'tools' icon, a wrench and screwdriver, near upper right, select
"Install Add-on From File...".

after installation, close and restart thunderbird.


!Χριστός Ανέστη!

!Χρόνια πολλά!


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[Onno Ekker]

Op 3-5-2016 om 13:27 schreef geo:

>
>
> On 05/03/16 04:04, Lifeiss...@eud.33mail.com wrote:
>> I've been trying to install a language pack for Thunderbird, so that I
>> could read a Greek email I received.
>>
> ===>
>
> pull greek language add-on from this page;
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/greek-gr-language-pack-thunder/versions/
>
> save the xpi to a directory. to install, open add-ons page, click the
> 'tools' icon, a wrench and screwdriver, near upper right, select
> "Install Add-on From File...".
>
> after installation, close and restart thunderbird.
>
>
> !Χριστός Ανέστη!
>
> !Χρόνια πολλά!
>
>

You don't need to install a language pack to be able to read Greek mails
you receive. The language pack is only necessary to change the UI of
Thunderbird to Greek and maybe also adds a Greek dictionary.

What you want is a font that shows the Greek glyphs. For me this works
out of the box with standard en-US Thunderbird on Windows 7 with fonts
Cambria, Calibri and Consolas for erif, sans-serif and respectively
(under Tools | Options | Display | Format | Advanced).

It might be necessary to change the text encoding on a message base
under View | Text Encoding and choose Unicode or Greek if autodetect
doesn't work for the selected message.

Onno

[PietB]

Lifeiss...@eud.33mail.com wrote:
> I've been trying to install a language pack for Thunderbird, so that I
> could read a Greek email I received.

> ...

> I still can't read the email I got!! Even when I go to View / Character
> encoding / and click on Greek ISO or Greek Windows.

Wondering what's so special with that mail. Did you try encoding Unicode?
I haven't installed any language pack, but I can send, receive and read
mails in Greek and Cyrillic just fine using Unicode. Viewing those mails
with Greek ISO or Greek Windows gives only garbage.

-p

[Micky]

On Tue, 3 May 2016 15:41:44 +0200, Onno Ekker <o.e....@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Op 3-5-2016 om 13:27 schreef geo:
>>
>>
>> On 05/03/16 04:04, Lifeiss...@eud.33mail.com wrote:
>>> I've been trying to install a language pack for Thunderbird, so that I
>>> could read a Greek email I received.
>>>
>> ===>
>>
>> pull greek language add-on from this page;
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/greek-gr-language-pack-thunder/versions/
>>
>> save the xpi to a directory. to install, open add-ons page, click the
>> 'tools' icon, a wrench and screwdriver, near upper right, select
>> "Install Add-on From File...".
>>
>> after installation, close and restart thunderbird.

I didn't even think of closing and restarting!
>>
>>
>> !??????? ??????!
>>
>> !?????? ?????!

>>
>>
>
>You don't need to install a language pack to be able to read Greek mails
>you receive. The language pack is only necessary to change the UI of
>Thunderbird to Greek and maybe also adds a Greek dictionary.
>
>What you want is a font that shows the Greek glyphs. For me this works
>out of the box with standard en-US Thunderbird on Windows 7 with fonts
>Cambria, Calibri and Consolas for erif, sans-serif and respectively
>(under Tools | Options | Display | Format | Advanced).

I haven't tried this.

>It might be necessary to change the text encoding on a message base
>under View | Text Encoding and choose Unicode or Greek if autodetect

But Unicode worked, except for one character, that I could replace
mentally.

[Micky]

On Tue, 3 May 2016 19:02:13 +0200, PietB <opt...@opt-in.invalid>
wrote:

Hey, you're right. Unicode didn't occur to me. Thanks, you guys.
>
>-p