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What's New
- 2011-10-18: French Key Layout Support. Zombiekeys added to Bugzilla!2.6
- 2011-09-23: Added User Interface and multiple keyboard layout support.2.5
- 2011-06-05: Compatibility update Fx5.0+Tb5.0.2.1
- 2011-01-01: Support Firefox 4, Postbox 2.1, Lightning.2.0
- 2010-01-20: bumped compatibility to TB 3.0.*, FX 3.6 and added Postbox 1.1 support. New Icon.1.3
- 2009-12-10: Axel Grude joined the Development team.
- 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)
ZombieKeys
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 this | Press |
|---|---|
| à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù | CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter |
| á, é, í, ó, ú, ý, Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý; ð, Ð | CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter; d or D |
| â, ê, î, ô, û, Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û | CTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter |
| ã, ñ, õ, Ã, Ñ, Õ | CTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter |
| ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ, Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, Ÿ | CTRL+SHIFT+: (COLON), the letter |
| å, Å | CTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A |
| æ, Æ; œ, Œ; ß | CTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A; o or O; s |
| ç, Ç | CTRL+, (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) |
Extended Layout
Zombiekeys can do a little better than the Microsoft shortcuts above; a few more europeand diacritics have been added:

The full list of layouts (and bigger diagrams) are here.
Beta Versions, Prereleases and Archives
These can be downloaded here: http://downloads.mozdev.org/zombiekeys/
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