Apparently there’s a new plugin for Firefox/Thunderbird to help solve the pesky problem of typing odd characters not found in your native language’s character set:

Have you ever been in a situation where you had to write a special character that does not exist in your native language? Maybe it was an ü and you were corresponding with Herr Müller from Germany, or Søren from Denmark. Many European countries have special characters in their languages that others do not have. That’s a problem as it is then not that easy to write a character unique to that language in Firefox or Thunderbird.

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Zombie Keys for Firefox and Thunderbird offers an elegant alternative. The add-on adds a number of keyboard shortcuts to the program it is installed in. These shortcuts are used to write the foreign language special characters. Shortcuts have been reduced to a minimum by adding multiple characters to one shortcut.

This could be a real lifesaver for those who correspond regularly with one random person in a faraway land, and could be a real speed improvement over character mapping; still, we’re a bit puzzled here at the ZRC as to what this has to do with Zombies.

Do Zombies write more emails on average to people overseas? Do they hate to hunt and peck in Character Mapper even more than Living people?

Whatever the baffling reason, as I’ve said before, until we can drop the mindless and inaccurate pejorative uses of the term ‘Zombie’ (like ‘Zombie Bank’ or ‘Zombie Idea’), I guess it’s nice to at least occasionally get the inexplicably positive uses too.

Tags: Don't Use the Zed Word

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