You may need to authenticate if you do not have an admin account. Scroll down to “Library”, select it, and then copy the file into the “Keyboard Layouts” folder. In your Finder, enter ⇧ + ⌘ + c (shift + command + c) to open a Finder window showing your home directory. This only affects your user profile: other users of your computer will not have access to this keyboard layout.ī./Library/Keyboard Layouts, your root Library folder.

In your Finder, enter ⇧ + ⌘ + h (shift + command + h) to open a Finder window showing your home folder. I have assigned keyboard shortcuts in a slightly different way, using punctuation keys as my modifiers (e.g., ⌥ + -, a for ā, instead of ⌥ + a, a).ġ.You will need to download the keyboard layout Roman_transliteration_of_Urdu.keylayout(right click, and select “Save Linked File to ‘Downloads’”).Ģ.Copy the file into one of the two following folders:Ī.Home/Library/Keyboard Layouts, where home is your home folder. If, however, you would like a system that is more geared towards a Roman transliteration of the Arabo-Persian script as used in Urdu, then you might also consider a keyboard layout that I created called, appropriately enough, “Roman Transliteration of Urdu”. Roman Transliteration of Urdu Keyboard Layout If this works for you, then read no further. A ‘t’ with a line beneath it, i.e., ṯ, is written: ⌥ + h, t. For á (‘a’ with an acute accent), you would enter: ⌥ + e, a.

If, for example, you want to write the letter ā (‘a’ with a macron above it), you would enter the following sequence of keystrokes: ⌥ + a, a.

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