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What's New
  • 2007-05-07: fix for SeaMonkey crash (see bug 270439) 1.1.4)
  • 2007-05-03: fix for cursor (and other "control") keys 1.1.3)
  • 2007-05-02: fix for localization 1.1.2)
  • 2007-05-01: fixes for SeaMonkey and XBL/CSS binding 1.1.1)
  • 2007-04-30: support Thunderbird 2.0, SeaMonkey 1.1 (1.1)
  • 2006-11-06: support Firefox 2.0 (1.0.1)
  • 2006-04-03: first public release (1.0)
Entering European languages (which include diacritics (accented characters, diaeresis, umlauts, etc.), ligatures, the Euro sign (€), etc.) into Mozilla applications using an English keyboard doesn't have to be a pain any more: ZombieKeys brings your dead keys to life!

From Microsoft's Keyboard shortcuts for international characters (added € and ¢):

To do thisPress
à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, Ì, Ò, ÙCTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, ý, Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý; ð, ÐCTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter; d or D
â, ê, î, ô, û, Â, Ê, Î, Ô, ÛCTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter
ã, ñ, õ, Ã, Ñ, ÕCTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ, Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, ŸCTRL+SHIFT+: (COLON), the letter
å, ÅCTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A
æ, Æ; œ, Œ; ßCTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A; o or O; s
ç, ÇCTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
ø, Ø, ¢CTRL+/, o or O or c
¿CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+?
¡CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+!
CTRL+ALT+E
The Unicode character for the specified Unicode (hexadecimal) character code. For example, to insert the euro currency symbol (€), type 20AC, and then hold down the ALT key and press X.The character code, ALT+X
The Windows-1252 character for the specified (decimal) character code.For example, to insert the euro currency symbol (€), hold down the ALT key and press 0128 on the numeric keypad.ALT+the character code (on the numeric keypad)

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