[muhammadn]

Thanks @criag0990 for sharing your problems with the Jawi Keyboard. Didn't know about Microsoft Store.

I'm using a macOS so i didn't notice - also macOS already has their own "Malay Arabic - Jawi" Keyboard built in so thankfully i didn't need to make one for macOS.

But i'll try to upload my version up to Microsoft Store (which is not SIRIM but based on phonetics from latin alphabets to make typing more natural as you don't need arabic stickers or arabic keyboard - You can use your normal QWERTY keyboard.

you can download it from here: https://jawikey.com but i will try to get it in Microsoft Store. :-)

I am not sure about the font because we use Ubuntu fonts and it works perfectly fine. (maybe missing for "va" character)

As for the font is that as long the font supports those jawi-specific unicode characters everything should be fine. For now, things have gotten a lot better with Jawi as compared 6-7 years ago.

The version from your URL is actually the official Malaysian SIRIM Standard which is based on the Arabic keyboard.

[craig0990]

Ah, I see, so yours is using a different key mapping, but still outputs the correct Unicode characters? I remember the stickers on the keyboards :)

By "weird TTF font" earlier, I meant they had a Jawi font that basically worked like Wingdings - they were typing a genuine ASCII "A" (0x41/0x61), but the font was "rendering" an aleph (I think). So it looked OK with the font. But it wasn't "proper" Unicode.

I'll keep https://jawikey.com in mind for the future though :)