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Persian(PArsi) keyboard or PArsic keyboard is a keyboard which supports Uni-Pers characters and is targeted to be used by Fingilish users and Persian speaking chat users.
Persian keyboard mainly contains Latin-1 character set, the same character set which is used for writing English language. To adapt the keyboard to Persian language, UniPers characters like [ Ä Ü Ž Š ] and (in some of listed layouts) Desphilic extended characters like [ğ Ğ ķ Ķ ö Ö] have been added to this keyboard. Desphilic Extended keyboard is a contribution from Desphilic Standard to UniPers romanization of Persian. This keyboard promotes usage of Uni-Pers and is a sign of consistency between Desphilic and Unipers converging toward a universal standard Persian keyboard. There are various versions and layouts for this keyboards which are currently available from Uni-Pers website and Desphilic website.
Desphilic-UniPers keyboard has the same base layout as an ordinary English keyboard. It provides access to additional characters ( Desphilic UniPers Extended characters) like [ ä ö ü š ğ ķ ž ] and their Caps by pressing AltGr+ [ a o u w q k z ] and their Caps.AltGr is simply the right hand alt of the keyboard or Alt+Ctrl. Desphilic keyboard do not redefines any of base keys on the standard English keyboard and all previous characters are available. It is currently available from Desphilic website for all versions of MS Windows (Win32 and Win64). Layout details and installation instructions are available at Desphilic website.
UniPers keyboard supports Uni-Pers Standard and provides access to [ Ä Ü Ž Š ] characters. Uni-Pers keyboards do not provide access to [ğ Ğ ķ Ķ ö Ö].Layouts for UniPers keyboards are depicted in the Unipers keyboard webpage. These keyboards are currently available for Microsoft Windows 32-bit versions.
Redefines [ [,],{,},|,\ ] and replaces them with other characters(ä,š,ž and their Caps). To access redefined characters , you must press "^" then the previous key.
The keyboard base is the same as English keyboard and for access to (ä,š,ž and their Caps), one must press "^" then a,s,z ( or their Caps).
The keyboard base is the same as French keyboard and for access to (ä,š,ž and their Caps), one must press "^" then a,s,z ( or their Caps).
These keyboards can be used by Persian speaking users to resolve the ambiguities between transliterated words when using characters which do not have distinct counterparts in Penglish and may be transliterated to the same letter in ordinary English keyboard for example ambiguity between ا and آ .
Ambiguity examples which exist in Penglish and Bahaei transliteration.
| Ambiguity in non-standard penglish |
Resolved using Desphilic rules |
By extended Persian keyboard |
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| between ش and سه( ashab= اصحاب= اشاب) | اصحاب=ashAb , اشاب=EwAb | اصحاب=ashäb , اشاب=Ešäb | ش and سه were transliterated identically to sh but in desphilic ش=w (or š in desphilic-unipers) and سه=sh |
| between آ and ا (sam=سم=سام) | سام=sAm , سم=sam | سام=säm , سم=sam | آ,ا were transliterated to the same letter 'a' but have separate transliteration by Desphilic or Unipers |
This keyboard is intended to serve internationalization of Persian language and standardization of Penglish(Fingilish). Also this keyboard can help Persian chat users to write more easily recognized words using Roman-Persian alphabet.