Persian keyboard
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PersianPersian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
(PArsi) keyboard or PArsic keyboard is a keyboard
Keyboard (computing)
In computing, a keyboard is a typewriter-style keyboard, which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys, to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches...
which supports Uni-Pers characters and is targeted to be used by Fingilish
Fingilish
Penglish, Pinglish, Fingilish or Fargelisi is a term used to describe the way Persian words are written using the Latin alphabet , or generally the casual romanization of Persian words popularized after computers, emailing and online chat became...
users and Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
speaking chat users.
Persian chat keyboard
Persian keyboard mainly contains Latin-1 character set, the same character set which is used for writing English languageEnglish language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. To adapt the keyboard to Persian language
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
, UniPers characters like [ Ä Ü Ž Š ] and (in some of listed layouts
Keyboard layout
A keyboard layout is any specific mechanical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key–meaning associations of a computer, typewriter, or other typographic keyboard....
) 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
Romanization of Persian
Romanization of Persian is the means by which the Persian language is represented using the Latin alphabet. Several different romanization schemes exist, each with its own set of rules driven by its own set of ideological goals.-Romanization paradigms:...
. 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 keyboard
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.Uni-Pers keyboards
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.UniPers-1
Redefines [ [,],{,},|,\ ] and replaces them with other characters(ä,š,ž and their Caps). To access redefined characters , you must press "^" then the previous key.UniPers-int
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).UniPers-french
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).Usage of Persian Roman keyboards
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 | Description |
| 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)
Fingilish
Penglish, Pinglish, Fingilish or Fargelisi is a term used to describe the way Persian words are written using the Latin alphabet , or generally the casual romanization of Persian words popularized after computers, emailing and online chat became...
. Also this keyboard can help Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
chat users to write more easily recognized words using Roman-Persian alphabet.
See also
- Persian romanization
- penglish
- Desphilic
- Latin1
- Perso-Arabic scriptPerso-Arabic scriptThe Persian or Perso-Arabic alphabet is a writing system based on the Arabic script. Originally used exclusively for the Arabic language, the Arabic alphabet was adapted to the Persian language, adding four letters: , , , and . Many languages which use the Perso-Arabic script add other letters...