Urdu Phonetic Keyboard

INTRO:Urduayub Urdu phonetic keyboard compiled for Urdu language input convenience of native Urdu language phonetic keyboard users for their personal needs. This Urdu phonetic keyboard is identical to QWERTY layout, so you can learn with natural ease, however some new characters installed for your convenience.

INSTALLATION: Please follow installation steps carefully. Download, unzip & open Urduayub folder, double click setup.exe and follow on-screen prompts to complete installation. In WinXP you need to instal Urdu language support using your WinXP CD, if not installed already(No need in Vista). From control panel, open regional language options, click languages tab & in "Supplemental language support", click on "Install complex script...right-to-left languages" check box, which will prompt you to install Arabic etc support. By clicking "OK" in both boxes, you may or may not be prompted to load WinXP CD to install desired language support, depending whether additional languages installed. In either case, follow on-screen prompts which will finally lead you to restart computer(during Urdu file copying, close WinXP install welcome screen, incase appeared). Back in "Regional language options", select "Languages" tab, click on "Details" button, which will open "Text service & input language" box, where clicking "Add" button will further open "Add input language" box, inwhich click "Input language" dropdown, select Urdu as language and then click "Keyboard layout" checkbox & from this dropdown, select "Urduayub" as your additional keyboard layout & click "OK" to close this box. As you close it, you will notice addition of "Urdu" as new language & "Urduayub" as new keyboard (you can always remove it by selecting Urduayub & clicking "Remove" button, the sameway as you added). Now as you click "OK" to close this box, the "Languagebar" icon should appear on desktop, which you may like to right click to simplify & minimize to taskbar for convenience, if not done already. Incase icon not shown, right click, taskbar on your desktop, select "toolbar options" & click "language bar" to make it appear on taskbar.

TEST: To test this Urdu phonetic keyboard layout, open notepad and in taskbar located on desktop bottom, select "UR" from the languagebar and now back in notepad, start typing on phonetic pattern of the English QWERTY layout. Phonetic Urdu pattern is memorized swiftly as you practise. Incase of notepad, while you save, select character encoding as unicode instead of ANSI in order to keep encoding info preserved. This is not necessary incases of Word, Wordpad etc.
You may further customize in regional language options. You may like to keep ENGLISH as default input for overall convenience, as needed. If you dont like Urdu numeric input, simply use numeric keypad for English instead.

UNINSTALLATION: To remove "Urduayub" keyboard, open "Add/Remove programs" from control panel & select "Urduayub" to remove. Removal can also be performed from "Urduayub" folder by repeating installation steps & following on-screen prompts.

LIMITATION: This products compiled using microsoft sources for Urdu language input convenience of native Urdu language phonetic keyboard users for their personal needs that limit users accept personal/non commercial usage only. Some semi-urdu characters installed for rare use, which may likely be updated by compiler, as necessary.

DISCLAIMER: Although the application installs normally, compiler assumes user subject to sufficient knowledge of installation/configuration, hence not liable to unfavourable consequences.