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Turkish layout and alternatives need a lot of improvement.

We have the following soft letters in tr and they are very widely used.

Uü Sş Gğ Ii Cç Oö

When you long press U ü should be the automatic selection, instead 7 is the default and you have to drag your fingers across to select the soft letter, takes too much time, and if you dont want to bother it screws up t9 prediction. The same goes for all the other soft letters. The way this layout is implemented it is bordering on unusable. Default alternatives should be the soft letters. An easy fix but a very crucial one and must be implemented immediately, cant stress how important it is

Hello

An easy fix but a very crucial one and must be implemented immediately

Well, that's how it works for ALL languages, not only Turkish, so I wonder why Turkish is so special
And in the past I did that for other languages, and got complains immediately that the numbers were no more the default character after long press.
By the way, do you use the dictionary? If yes, you should not need to ever long press as the dictionary will look up for "ç" when you type "c", for "ü" when you type "u", etc (that's why the alternative letter is not the default)
But I can add an option to choose another layout as I did for Korean.

Thanks for the quick response. T9 for turkish needs a little improvement I tried using it for 10days back the guessing inaccuracy, a big portion due to soft letters literally drove me insane. Please implement soft letter default as an option at least.

Bump request

Ok the good news is that I found an easy way of implementing this option for every language, so expect a beta soon with this feature!

See this topic to discuss about this feature!