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Type
right to left Kurdish (Soranî), Arabic, and Persian with proper line wrap, full justification, automatic
contextualization of consonants, and proper positioning of vowels and diacritic marks as you type.
Then switch to Kurmanji and Yekgirtú or Cyrillic Kurdish without changing
fonts.
LaserKurdish in Unicode for Windows or
Macintosh includes right-to-left, Unicode-encoded, TrueType®
OpenType™ fonts in 4 typestyles with all characters and
diacritics for standard modern Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian (not Koranic Arabic).
In addition, the fonts support Roman Kurdish (Kurmanji), Cyrillic Kurdish,
plus English and other west European (Latin 1) languages.
Soranî
Kurmanji and Yekgirtú
Cyrillic
The four fonts included in LaserKurdish in
Unicode are
LateefiKurdishLSU
KitabiKurdishLSU
NargisiKurdishLSU
SarmastKurdishLSU
LateefiKurdishLSU
KitabiKurdishLSU
NargisiKurdishLSU
SarmastKurdishLSU
Users can
type right to left with proper line wrap and full justification of
Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian text. The
fonts include OpenType™ layout features that provide automatic
contextualization of consonants and proper positioning of vowels and
diacritic marks as you type. The
user may switch back and forth between Kurdish (Arabic-script, Roman-script,
or Cyrillic-script), Arabic, Persian, English, and the other
supported Latin languages simply by toggling between the six included keyboard drivers, without changing fonts.
When you select the Kurdish Soranî, Arabic, or Persian keyboard, input will automatically be right to
left. When you select the Kurmanji, Cyrillic, or English keyboard, the input direction will
automatically change to left to right. Users may combine any of the
supported languages with text
from any other language or font supported by your computer's Operating System. All
this can be done with your regular physical keyboard. You do not need to buy
a special keyboard to use the LaserKurdish in Unicode fonts.
The Unicode encoding of these fonts means the Windows and
Macintosh fonts are compatible for Kurdish (Soranî, but not for Kurmanji or
Cyrillic). Documents may be freely exchanged
between Windows and Macintosh users, with no conversion or special handling
necessary, as long as the fonts are installed and each user has a compatible
application. (Please be sure you understand the System Requirements for
Windows and
Macintosh before you order.)
Languages supported by LaserKurdish in Unicode for Windows and
Macintosh:
Kurdish languages (spellings and common misspellings) supported by
the fonts:
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Read here about the Windows product, or scroll
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Macintosh product.
LaserKurdish in Unicode for Windows
LaserKurdish in Unicode for Windows provides
four high-quality, Unicode-encoded Kurdish fonts (described
above) in TrueType OpenType format for standard modern
Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian,
for typing right to left with proper line wrap and full justification. The
fonts include OpenType layout features that provide automatic
contextualization of consonants and proper positioning of vowels and diacritic marks as you type.
The fonts make use of
the OpenType shaping engine (Uniscribe) built into Windows 7, Vista,
and XP. The fonts do not include the distinctive symbols of Koranic Arabic.
LaserKurdish in Unicode
for Windows includes six keyboard layouts that provide four-characters-per-key input
(instead of the normal two) in Windows 7, Vista, and XP. Three of the
keyboards support Kurdish; one supports Arabic; one supports Persian; and one supports English and
the other Latin 1 languages supported by the fonts.
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The KurdishLSU keyboard layout is
for Arabic-script Kurdish (Soranî) and is arranged phonetically to match
the US keyboard as closely as possible. |
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The KurdishRomLSU keyboard layout is similar
to the US English keyboard layout, but it can also type Roman-script
Kurdish (Kurmanji or Yekgirtú). |
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The KurdishCyrLSU keyboard layout is for
Cyrillic-script Kurdish and is arranged phonetically to match the US
keyboard as closely as possible. |
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The ArabicLSU Qwerty keyboard layout is a
phonetic layout with the Arabic sounds matched to the English (US)
keyboard as closely as possible. This keyboard also supports Persian. |
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The FarsiLSU Qwerty keyboard layout is
a phonetic layout with the Persian sounds matched to the English
(US) keyboard as closely as possible. This keyboard also supports
Arabic. |
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The EnglishLS OT keyboard layout allows the user to type
English and other western Latin-based languages easily. It allows the user to
toggle from one of the Kurdish keyboards into the EnglishLS
OT keyboard
and type English, French, German, Spanish, etc., without changing
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Windows System Requirements:
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Requires Windows 7, Vista, or XP. |
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Requires installation into Windows XP of
complex script supplemental language
support. This requires your original Windows XP installation
CD. Our Setup Instructions provide
instructions for installing this Windows feature. This
feature is built in to Windows 7 and Vista and does not need
to be installed separately in those Operating Systems. |
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This product will not work in any earlier version of
Windows (2000/NT/Me/98/95/3.x). |
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Requires Microsoft Office 2010, 2007,
or 2003 (except PowerPoint 2003 is not compatible),
or InDesign CS4, InDesign CS4-ME, OpenOffice 3.2,
LibreOffice 3.3, or Lotus Symphony 3, or another
Unicode-compatible and OpenType-aware application that
similarly handles Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian vowels and
accents. |
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At this
time we know of no other programs that support the
OpenType features in these fonts, including
QuarkXPress 7.0/8.0.
(QuarkXPress 8.02 has been tested, and is not compatible.) There may be other software designed for Arabic
or Persian that does
support the OpenType features of the LaserKurdish in
Unicode for Windows fonts. If you discover any program that does support these
features, please contact us! |
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OpenOffice is a free
office-compatible suite available for free download from
www.openoffice.org.
LibreOffice is a free office-compatible suite available for
free download from
www.libreoffice.com.
Lotus Symphony is a free office-compatible suite available
for free download
symphony.lotus.com. |
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Printing: The fonts will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by
the printer. |
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Documentation: All documentation, including a User's
Manual, the Keyboard Layout Charts (showing placement of the
characters on the keys), and a Troubleshooting Manual, is in Adobe® Acrobat™ PDF
format, and is installed into the Windows Start menu for easy access. Users may view the documentation on screen
or print it using Acrobat
Reader, available free online if you do not already have it. |
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Compatibility with Macintosh Fonts:
Documents containing Arabic-script Kurdish (Soranî), Arabic,
Persian, English and other Latin 1 languages created with these fonts are compatible with the
Macintosh
version of
LaserKurdish in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary
when transferring files back and forth between Windows and Macintosh if the system and application requirements are
met on both computers. Documents containing Roman-script
Kurdish (Kurmanji) and Cyrillic-script Kurdish may be
transferred to a Macintosh user, but Macintosh documents
containing these two scripts will not read correctly when
transferred to Windows. Certain diacritics will not position
correctly. |
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LaserKurdish in Unicode for Windows
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 LaserKurdish in
Unicode for Macintosh
LaserKurdish in Unicode for Macintosh provides four high-quality, Unicode-encoded
Kurdish fonts (described
above) in TrueType OpenType format for standard modern
Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian,
for typing right to left with proper line wrap and full justification (in
Mellel, sold separately). The
fonts include OpenType layout features which provide automatic
contextualization of consonants and proper positioning of vowels and diacritic marks as you type.
The fonts do not include the distinctive symbols of Koranic Arabic.
LaserKurdish in Unicode
for Macintosh includes five keyboard layouts. There are three Kurdish keyboard layouts—one
for Arabic-script Kurdish (Soranî), one for Roman-script Kurdish (Kurmanji),
and one for Cyrillic-script Kurdish. A fourth keyboard is for Arabic, with a
phonetic layout, and the fifth keyboard is for Persian, with a phonetic
layout.
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The English-KurdishLSU keyboard layout
is for Arabic-script Kurdish (Soranî) and is arranged phonetically to
match the US keyboard as closely as possible. |
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The English-KurdishRomLSU keyboard layout is
similar to the US English keyboard layout, but it can also type
Roman-script Kurdish (Kurmanji or Yekgirtú). |
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The English-KurdishCyrLSU keyboard layout
is for Cyrillic-script Kurdish and is arranged phonetically to match
the US keyboard as closely as possible. |
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The English-ArabicLSU Qwerty keyboard layout
is a phonetic layout with the Arabic sounds matched to the English
(US) keyboard as closely as possible. |
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The English-FarsiLSU Qwerty keyboard layout
is a phonetic layout with the Persian sounds matched to the English
(US) keyboard as closely as possible. |
With each of the keyboards, the user can switch between
English and Kurdish, English and Arabic, or
English and Persian, by pressing the caps lock key. Type English when the
caps lock key is up, and the other supported language when the caps lock key
is down.
Macintosh System Requirements:
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Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. |
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| Applications
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Requires Mellel,
sold separately. |
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Even applications that claim to be Unicode
and OpenType compliant (e.g., QuarkXPress 7.0 or InDesign) may only support a limited range of Unicode characters or
a limited set of OpenType features. Contact
Linguist's Software about compatibility questions and about the availability of
a non-Unicode version of this product that works in all applications.
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Documentation: All documentation, including a User's
Manual and Keyboard Layout Charts (showing placement of the
characters on the keys) is in Adobe® Acrobat™ PDF
format. Users may view the documentation on screen
or print it, using
Acrobat
Reader, available free online if you do not already have it. |
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Compatibility with Windows
Fonts: Documents containing Arabic-script Kurdish
(Soranî), Arabic, Persian, English and other Latin 1
languages created with these fonts are compatible with the
Windows
version of
LaserKurdish in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary
when transferring files back and forth between Windows and Macintosh if the system and application requirements are
met on both computers. Documents containing Roman-script
Kurdish (Kurmanji) and Cyrillic-script Kurdish may be
transferred from a Windows user, but Macintosh documents
containing these two scripts will not read correctly when
transferred to Windows. Certain diacritics will not position
correctly. |
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Purchase Now
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LaserKurdish in Unicode for Macintosh
$149.95
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Mellel
$25
Order ($25
when ordered with this Macintosh product, $38 sold separately.) |
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Also Available:
A non-Unicode-encoded version of our Kurdish fonts is available for Macintosh
only:
The LaserKurdish for Macintosh non-Unicode-encoded fonts are not interchangeable with
LaserKurdish in Unicode fonts. However, both Unicode and
non-Unicode versions of LaserKurdish may be
installed on your system (since they have different file and font names)
and may even be used in the same documents. The value of the
non-Unicode-encoded LaserKurdish product is the fonts may be used
in applications that do not support the OpenType features of
LaserKurdish in Unicode for Macintosh. Note, however, non-Unicode LaserKurdish does
not support right-to-left input.
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