Pashto Qwerty Keyboard Layout ver 2 (Windoze)

[SiiNii]

This layout was created to make it easier for the 99% of us who grew up on Qwerty to type in Pashto, with minimal time spent learning a new layout. Hope you guys find it useful, tell me what needs to be improved and added.

advantages:
1. Only one shift state (avoids ctrl shift state avoiding issues with certain programs)
2. Similar characters share the same key
3. Fully compatible with the pdf Pashto-English dictionary

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After installing:

Control Panel
Change keyboards or other input methods
Keyboards and Languages
Change keyboards
Add
Pashto - Pashto Qwerty

then

Advanced Key Settings
Change Key Sequence
Switch Input Language to Left Alt + Shift

[SiiNii]

ا
آ (shift a)
اً (shift 1)

[B / ẓ]
ب
ږ

چ
څ

د
ډ

[E]
ع
ې

ف

[G / ɣ]
گ
غ

ه
ح

[I]
ئ
ۍ

[J]
ج
ځ

ک
ګ

ل

م

ن
ڼ

و
ة

پ
ث

ق

ر
ړ

س
ش

ت
ټ

[U]
ط

[V]
ذ
ظ

[W]
ض
ص

[X / ṣ]
خ
ښ

[Y]
ي
ی

ز
ژ

[SiiNii]

Installers for amd64, i386, and ia64

[tor_khan]

Destaar do phonetic keyboards that reconfigures the options so that a=alif, s=seen etc.

Once you get used to it, the Windows Pashto keyboard is fairly easy and comes about as close to a standard as you'll get. The period mark/full stop "." does though your lines out of kilter a little. This something that Team Microsoft need to work on. Forget iOS building in a Pashto keyboard as standard.

Even the guys at Android don't do it, but they do offer Urdu and Farsi, so you can in theory recreate most sounds except ڼ if you pick and choose your lettering,

[sokaniwaal]

Good Job rora..
Its better for us having familiarity with qwerty rather than Pashto default layout.

[Bannuchi]

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