Dear Roozbeh, Thanks for your efforts to provide us with an experimental version of the new standard keyboard layout for Persian !
I tried the keyboard in Word2000/Win2000, using Arial Unicode MS which displays all glyphs that can be generated via the keyboard except Riyal sign and Subscript alef. I am not quite sure in which context standalone versions of maddah, hamzah above and hamzah below are used, but assume they are there because they are in the Unicode standard. Standard shortcuts of Word for C, R, and T also work with the Persian keyboard. What does not work is Word's AutoCorrect option for "smart quotes", i.e. neither quotation mark (U+0022) nor apostrophe (U+0027) are converted into their "smart" equivalents; I wonder if this feature is keyboard-(dll)-related but if it is, I suggest to implement it as well as many users, especially in bilingual context, may want to use typographically correct English quotation marks. How would you input ZSNJ, and RTL/LTR markers with the new keyboard? (These special characters aren't mentioned in keyboard.png as well.) I also wonder whether there is any accepted standard to show alef maqsura on keytops. In keyboard.png, you use an initial shape of ya without dots which may be misleading; how about using isolated ya without dots but with a superscript alef (I remember this was a keytop inscription on a keyboard for an Arabic/Persian typesetting machine that I use many years ago...) Are there any decisions as to support other regional languages such as Kurdish or Azeri? If the ultimate goal is to support several languages using an "extended Arabic" glyphset via one and the same keyboard, my feeling is that some Shift or Alt key positions may have better been reserved for special characters of these languages, or defined as deadkeys to create certain "accented" characters (as in case of the US International keyboard). Best regards, Peter E. Hauer Linguasoft Vienna, Austria -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roozbeh Pournader Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:56 PM To: The FarsiWeb Mailing List; Persian Computing list Subject: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows Using Microsoft's new keyboard creation tool, we created a keyboard layout based on the latest committee draft for the future national Iranian keyboard layout. You can download it at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/farsitools/persiankeyboard.zip?downlo ad Important Note: This only works for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. More Important Note: Please provide feedback, if you have any. Otherwise this may become a national standard and then suddenly you may start to nag ;-) Installation Instructions ========================= 1. Download the ZIP file, and unpack it. 2. Go to the directory where you have unpacked the ZIP file, and double-click the file called 'Persian.msi' (or right-click on it and choose 'Install'). Follow the instructions. 3. Go to the keyboard layouts section of your Control Panel, and choose the "Farsi" layout to edit. In the small Windows that pops up, choose "Farsi" in the first dropdown dialog, and "Persian experimental layout" in the second. Press "OK" a few times. The new Persian layout should now replace the old MS layout. Known bugs ========== 1. Shift-Space doesn't work. You should use Shift+B for inserting Zero Width Non-Joiner. 2. This is a Windows feature: Ctrl+Shift will act like AltGr/right Alt. If you have shortcut keys assigned to them, they may start to act in a weird way. _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
