Persian phonetic keyboard layout

Persian phonetic keyboard is for those interested to profit from their skill in typing with the English keyboard (or similar keyboards such as French and German) to type in Persian much faster. I have tried to order Persian characters so that by typing an English key you can type its Persian equivalent. Regarding sounds having several characters in the Persian script (e.g. S's, Z's), the most frequent character is available on the normal state of the keyboard and the other characters are available on the Shift state (i.e. when you hold down the Shift key and press another key).

Layout

Here are the Persian characters you can type by pressing their associated key

normal

Here are the Persian characters you can type by first holding Shift down and then pressing their associated key

shift

Here are the Persian characters you can type by first holding either Right Alt or Ctrl + either Alt down and then pressing their associated key

ctrl+alt

How to install the keyboard

NOTE This keyboard is for Windows NT4.0 and Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/7 systems.

Download this zip file and unzip it wherever you like. Now click on the 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 apply our keyboard to the Persian language which is called Farsi on most versions of the Windows operating system.

In case you have not yet enabled Farsi (FA) on your system please follow these steps:

  1. Open Regional and Language Options in Control Panel.
  2. On the Languages tab, under Supplemental language support, select the Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages check box (in case it's not already selected).
  3. Click OK or Apply.
  4. After the files are installed, you must restart your computer.
  5. Now, on the Languages tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
  6. Under Installed services, click Add.
  7. In the Input language list, click on Farsi/Persian to add.
  8. Now, in the Keyboard layout/IME list, click on Persian (Phonetic) to add.
  9. Click OK on all opened Windows to close. You are done. Now you can select Farsi (FA) from the language bar and type in Persian script with this phonetic keyboard.

In case you have already enabled Farsi (FA) on your system please follow these steps:

  1. If you have the language bar on your desktop, simply right click on it and choose Settings from the appeared menu and skip to step 4. Otherwise, follow steps 2 and 3
  2. Open Regional and Language Options in Control Panel.
  3. On the Languages tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
  4. Under Installed services, click on the keyboard icon of Farsi and then click Add button.
  5. Now, in the Keyboard layout/IME list, click on Persian (Phonetic) to add.
  6. Click OK to close Add Input Language window. In the list of keyboard layouts available for Farsi language, select Farsi and then click Remove button. Now, we have Persian (Phonetic) as the default keyboard layout for Farsi.
  7. Click OK or Apply to close. You are done. Now you can select Farsi (FA) from the language bar and type in Persian script with this phonetic keyboard.