Persian Keyboard Layouts

ISIRI 2901-1994 Layout

The original layout is from Roozbeh Pournader.

Unshifted keyboard

Shifted keyboard
Some of the symmetric characters have been swapped on the shifted mapping because our
rendering systems already take care of presenting the correct glyph for the text direction.

Other Key Mappings
Key	Character	Name
B	0x200C	Zero Width Non-Joiner (ZWNJ)
`	0x200D	Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ)
Shift-space	0x200C	Zero Width Non-Joiner (ZWNJ)

Custom Key Mappings
Key	Character	Name
Ctrl+j	0x200D	ZERO WIDTH JOINER
Ctrl+l	0x200E	LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
Ctrl+n	0x200C	ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
Ctrl+r	0x200F	RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK

CRL variation of the ISIRI 2901-1988 Layout.

This layout includes the voice marks in random order and letters used for Pashto.

Unshifted keyboard

Shifted keyboard

Custom Key Mappings
Key	Character	Name
Ctrl+j	0x200D	ZERO WIDTH JOINER
Ctrl+l	0x200E	LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
Ctrl+n	0x200C	ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
Ctrl+r	0x200F	RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK

CRL Phonetic Layout

This layout was developed for internal projects and is used quite extensively at CRL.

Unshifted keyboard

Shifted keyboard

Custom Key Mappings
Key	Character	Name
Ctrl+j	0x200D	ZERO WIDTH JOINER
Ctrl+l	0x200E	LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
Ctrl+n	0x200C	ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
Ctrl+r	0x200F	RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK

A Persian Transliteration Layout

I do not recall exactly where I got this data, but there are people actually using this keyboard layout.

Unshifted keyboard

Shifted keyboard

Custom Key Mappings
Key	Character	Name
Ctrl+j	0x200D	ZERO WIDTH JOINER
Ctrl+l	0x200E	LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
Ctrl+n	0x200C	ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
Ctrl+r	0x200F	RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK