In a technical committee meeting for designing a new and extended standard Unicode-based keyboard layout for Persian as used in Iran, based on the national standard ISIRI 2901:1994, we agreed the following layout. We appreciate any feedback either to the mailing lists, or to the FarsiWeb Project Group's address at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
We did not consider the requirements of the popular minority languages of Iran, most specifically Azeri (and other Turkic languages), Kurdish, Balochi, and Luri. We appreciate the help of anyone who can help us in that. Roozbeh, for the FarsiWeb Project Group -------------- Features of the layout: 1. Complete backward compatiblity with ISIRI 2901:1994, available from <http://www.isiri.org/std/2901.htm>. No single key is changed, only empty positions are filled. 2. Specification based on the Unicode 4.0 repretoire, including Rial Sign and Subscript Alef, various Unicode bidirectional control characters, 3. Usage of the AltGr (or right Alt) key for required-but-rarely-used characters. 4. Complete support for US ASCII punctioations, for entering rich text, such as XML and HTML. 5. Complete support for the character repretoire of ISIRI 6219:2002. 6. Complete support for quoting Arabic texts of Koran and Hadith. Attached are two files, first a visual layout, and then a data file for Unicode code points assigned to the keys. In the visual layout, the following control characters are not marked: ` (E00): Zero Width Joiner AltGr+9 (E09): Left-to-Right Mark AltGr+0 (E10): Right-to-Left Mark AltGr+I (D08): Left-to-Right Override AltGr+O (D09): Right-to-Left Override AltGr+P (D10): Pop Directional Formatting AltGr+[ (D11): Left-to-Right Embedding AltGr+] (D12): Right-to-Left Embedding Shift+B (B05): Zero Width Non-Joiner AltGr+B (B05): Zero Width Joiner Space: Space Shift+Space: Zero Width Non-Joiner AltGr+Space: No-Break Space
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