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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 andWindows 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 . 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 . For typing and , you must first hold Shift key down and then press "S" and "D"
respectively.

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:
NOTE 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 in it changes to

. As you see, ZWNJ itself isn't visible but we can detect it from its effect on its preceding
character.

Tab

Caps

ZWNJ

Shift

--

==

Backspace

][

[]

\\

''

Enter

..

//

Shift

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Shift state
Here are the characters you can type by holding Shift key down and then pressing a key:
NOTE 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 it changes to . Just like ZWNJ, ZWNJ
itself isn't visible but we can detect it from its effect on its preceding character.

!1

@2

#3

^6

&7

Tab

Caps

:;

"'

Enter

Shift

ZWJ

Shift

*8

)9

(0

_-

+=

Backspace

}[

{]

|\

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:

~`

Tab

?Q

Caps

Shift

LRM

$4

RLM

PDF

%5

LRO

RLO

LRE

RLE

>[ <]

,K

;;

Backspace

`\

Enter

Shift

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How to install
Please get unzip the attached file 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.

Use and enjoy typing Persian ;)

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