
Turkish GERTY keyboard layout for UK keyboards
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Before continuing, please make sure that you do indeed have a UK (British, rather than a US or other) keyboard.  If your keyboard is not a UK one you should delete the .zip file and any expanded files and download the correct version for your keyboard.
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CONTENTS
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A. Turkish language support
B. Installation
C. Using the keyboard
D. Example
E. Typing Turkish in Notepad
F. Uninstalling UK Turkish layout
G. Feedback
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A. Turkish language support
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In order to see the Turkish alphabet properly displayed in Windows you must first ensure that Turkish is recognized by the system: this will convert "" to Yumusak G etc.

1. Start|Settings|Control Panel|Add/Remove Programs|Windows Setup|Multilanguage Support

2. Click on the "Details..." button and check (select) Turkish, OK, OK, ...




B. Installation
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1. Copy the new keyboard file:

		kbdtu_uk.kbd

to your Windows/System folder.


2. Double-click on the Registry update file:

		addtu_uk.reg

This will ensure that the system recognizes the new keyboard layout as a legitimate Turkish layout.

3. Close all running programs.

4. Reboot your machine (Start|Shut Down|Restart).

5. Start|Settings|Control Panel|Keyboard|Language|Add|Turkish, then click OK.

6. Make sure that you can see "Turkish (UK keyboard)" in the dialog box.  If not, click Properties & select "Turkish (UK keyboard)".

7. Select a suitable method of Switching Languages (the simplest is Left Alt-Shift), and check the "Enable Indicator on Taskbar" option.

8. Click OK.  You are now ready to type with the new keyboard layout.




C. Using the keyboard
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To type in Turkish (eg in Word or Internet Explorer), ensure that you can see the "Tr" indicator in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.  Refer to the graphical file turkish_uk.gif for the positions of the Turkish letters.  In IE you will also need to change to Turkish encoding [View|Encoding|Turkish (Windows)].

The main equivalents are as follows (^ = hold down the AltGr key on the right of the Space Bar):

	For		Type this key
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			X (next to C on keyboard)
	yum. G		Q (small q is similar to g)
	I		I
	dotted I	J
	j		^j
	J		^k
			0 (zero: looks like O)
			) (same key as 0 = zero)
	S,		$
	s,		4 (same key as $)
			W ("double[-dot] U" = )

	,,		^a,^i,^v

	q,w,x		^q,^w,^x
	Q,W,X		^1,^2,^z
	4,0		^4,^0
	)		^9 [same key as "(" ]

Most lower-case Turkish letters can also be typed using the AltGr key: eg ^g for yumusak g, ^o for , ^s for s,[imdi]   etc.


D. Example
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Yarin El^aziq'da g0rw4emeyeceqjz

or: Yarin El^azi^g'da g^or^u^semeyece^gjz 

= Yarin Elazig'da gorusemeyecegiz.





E. Typing Turkish in Notepad (eg when editing HTML)
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Notepad cannot display the Turkish letters: instead, you must use their ANSI equivalents [eg  (=yum. g),  (=noktasiz i)].  The trick in this case is to "add" a language that uses the English alphabet (eg the first option in step B.5 above, which is Afrikaans), then associate with that language the layout "Turkish (UK keyboard)", as described in step B.6.   Now switch to Afrikaans ("Af" on the taskbar indicator), and whenever you press the Q key you will see a "", etc.
	




F. Uninstalling UK Turkish layout
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1. Close all running programs.

2. Double-click on the registry update file:

	uninstal_uk.reg

in Windows Explorer.  This will restore the original QWERTY (Q-type) Turkish layout.

3. Reboot your machine.





G. Feedback
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Please send us your comments or suggestions for improvement to:
		
		sales@elgin.free-online.co.uk




N Greenwood Software

Last updated Sept 2001







