Persian phonetic keyboard layout is for Microsoft Windows users interested to profit from their skill in typing with Latin QWERTY keyboards (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) to type Persian characters much faster. Persian phonetic keyboard layout can be installed on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. As far as possible, Persian characters are ordered in a way that by typing a Latin key you can get its Persian equivalent. For example, by typing 'L' you get ل. Regarding sounds that have several characters in Persian alphabet (e.g. S's, Z's), the most frequent character is available on the normal state of the keyboard and the other homophone characters are available on the Shift state next to the first key. For example, by pressing 'S' key, you get س. For typing ص and ث, you must first hold Shift key down and then press 'S' and 'D' respectively.
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Normal state
Here are the characters you can type by simply pressing a key. Move your mouse over a key to learn about the character you can get by pressing it. To locate keys more easily, Latin characters printed on Latin keyboards are written below each key in gray:
` | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | - | = | Backspace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tab | Q | W | E | R | T | Y | U | I | O | P | [ | ] | |
| Caps | A | S | D | F | G | H | J | K | L | ; | ' | Enter | |
| Shift | Z | X | C | V | B | N | M | , | . | / | Shift | ||
ZWNJ stands for zero-width non-joiner. It's named so because it makes its preceding character appear in its non-joining form. For example, if you put ZWNJ after ی in میروم it changes to میروم. As you see, ZWNJ itself isn't visible but we can detect it from its effect on its preceding character.
Shift state
Here are the characters you can type by holding Shift key down and then pressing a key:
` | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | - | = | Backspace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tab | Q | W | E | R | T | Y | U | I | O | P | [ | ] | |
| Caps | A | S | D | F | G | H | J | K | L | ; | ' | Enter | |
| Shift | Z | X | C | V | B | N | M | , | . | / | Shift | ||
ZWJ stands for zero-width joiner. It's named so because it makes its preceding character appear in its joining form. For example, if you put ZWJ after ی it changes to ی. Just like ZWNJ, ZWNJ itself isn't visible but we can detect it from its effect on its preceding character.
Alt state
As you know, there are two Alt keys on a keyboard. One in the left and the other in the right. Here are the characters you can type by holding right Alt key down and then pressing a key. Alternatively, you can hold down Ctrl and either right or left Alt key down and then press a key:
` | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 0 | - | = | Backspace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tab | Q | W | E | R | Y | U | I | O | [ | ] | |||
| Caps | A | S | D | F | K | L | ; | Enter | |||||
| Shift | Z | X | C | V | B | N | M | , | . | / | Shift | ||
How to install
Please download and unzip perphon.zip. Open the folder, click on 'setup.exe' and wait for a while until a window appears indicating that Persian (Phonetic) has been successfully installed. Click on Close button to exit. Now we must add Persian as an input language to our computer and set 'Persian (Phonetic)' as its keyboard layout. Since doing this process varies depending on your operating system, please refer to this page on sil.org for an illustrated guide on how to add input languages and keyboard layouts on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
When you are in the step to add Persian language as an input language, please note that the language is called Farsi in Windows XP; In Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, the language is correctly called Persian. And finally, when you are in the step to add a keyboard layout, please look for Persian (Phonetic) in the list of keyboard layouts.
kamyar etemadi 1 wrote:
how do I get my mac to type my farsi fonts
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You need to enable a Persian keyboard. This will tell you how
<http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/mackey.html>
Mac OS X comes with three different Persian keyboards. Enable them all, try them out, see which one you prefer. (You can also install a different one, if you choose.) Then use the Geeza Pro font to begin with.
There are quite a few other resources, which you can find by googling. I suggest a closer look at Mellel
<http://www.redlers.com>
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It's an excellent Mac word processor; moreover, it was designed specifically for RTL languages.
I also suggest checking the Iranian Mac User Forum, where you are likely to find more specific advice
<http://irmug.org/forum/>
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Jan 5, 2012 10:23 PM