Apple Macintosh Arabic Language Kit - Manual (Page 19)

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The Persian keyboard layout
This is the standard Persian keyboard. It lets you type all Persian
characters in Normal and Shift positions. The top keyboard row
allows you to type Arabic numerals. The numeric keypad lets you
type Arabic or European numerals according to your settings (see
the section “The Persian Setting Control Panel” ).
Normal
Shift
Option
About the transliterated keyboard layouts
You should use the Arabic keyboard layout if you are already
familiar with this layout. Otherwise, you may want to choose one
of the transliterated keyboard layouts. The transliterated keyboard
layouts phonetically map the Arabic characters to a standard
English (QWERTY) transliterated or French (AZERTY)
transliterated keyboard layout.
Transliteration guidelines
The chart on the next page lists the names of all the letters of the
Arabic alphabet, and the key caps on the Arabic-QWERTY and
Arabe-AZERTY keyboards to which they correspond. The
keyboard mapping matches, where possible, the pronunciation of
the corresponding Roman character. For example, alif is mapped
to the letter a and miim is mapped to the letter m.
The Persian Transliteration Guide below can be used in addition
to the Arabic Transliteration Guide on the following page.
Chapter 4: Working in Multiple Languages
peh option-P option-P
Persian
Form Name of
Letter
QWERTY
Keyboard
Transliteration AZERTY
Keyboard
Transliteration
tcheh option-C or H option-C or H
zheh option-J option-J
gaf option-G option-G