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Dear Cyril,

I ask you to please include the Hungarian accented letters into a top row in the Hungarian layout just like it is available for Czech/Slovak full layout.
That would be a great help to speed up typing in Hungarian as currently we have to wait for the Long press duration and choose from the alternate symbol list: this method is slow and breaks the rythm of the typing.

I did a research what would be the best layout for the top row, how to place the nine accented letters we have in hungarian: áéíóöőúüű
I counted the accented letters in the collection of all prose-poems of a famous hungarian 20th century writer (Ady Endre; 1 119 815 words; http://mek.niif.hu/00500/00583/00583.doc):
letter count percentage
á 216402 32,23%
é 182499 27,18%
ó 60259 8,97%
ö 58674 8,74%
ő 47759 7,11%
í 35491 5,29%
ü 34269 5,10%
ú 24096 3,59%
ű 12060 1,80%

From these figures I created the following layout, optimized to be usable both using only one (right) thumb in portrait mode but also for fast typing with two thumbs both in portrait or landscape mode.
I arranged the 3 most frequent letters to have proper distance between and to balance the usage of left-right thumb. The result is:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
X ű ü é ő ö á í ó ú
X 1,80% 5,10% 27% 7,10% 8,70% 32% 5,20% 9% 3,60%

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,
János

ps: I love Smart Keyboard, your product is far the best virtual keyboard on market!

I agree, it would be really good to have a top row in Hungarian, like in Czech/Slovak, we have a lot of accented characters. I also like the arrangement János suggested (ű,ü,é,ő,ö,á,í,ó,ú). It would be a great feature, would you consider adding it?

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