Bulgarian BDS layout
I bought the SwiftKey Tablet X but unfortunately found that the Bulgarian language does not offer the official government layout standard in Bulgaria - BDS (translates to Bulgarian Goverment Standard). SwiftKey offers Phonetic layout for Bulgarian which is used by some users but many others like me use the BDS layout.
More information about the Bulgarian BDS standard here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Bulgarian
Thank you for this suggestion. This is issue is currently under review. Please watch this space for any updates.
42 comments
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Krasimir
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UNLESS YOU ADD BDS LAYOUT THIS APP IS UNUSABLE FOR ME.
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Peter
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This issue has been "under review" for almost a year and a half now !!! And there is no adequate response or anything done to be fixed !!!
LOL this is a great example of the totally inconsistent support provided by "SwiftKey Customer Support/Dev Team"...
When it comes to getting our money for the paid version (I am one that bought your paid versions both for mobile and tablet and I start to feel sorry that i did it) you are quite fast... but when it comes to fixing an important issue... you'll probably need two years !!! I am totally disappointed with you.... really...
And here are two more links (in English) that may help you in providing an exact BG BDS layout...:
http://www.proz.com/forum/bulgarian/160486-bulgarian_keyboard_layout_question.html (This one is a short forum discussion about BG layouts)
http://www.methodius.org/Bulgarian_Keyboards_ENG.pdf (This one is the official BG layouts standard as published by BG Authorities. It is a PDF file as you can see)
I hope the fix will hit Google play really soon....
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Anonymous
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And still nothing. Year and a half later.
This is an example of .... support. I don't really know want wort to use that is not an insult. -
Petar Petrov commented
I also want BDS support. Please implement it in future updates. Otherwise the app is not usable for many Bulgarians.
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Anonymous
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Your application is pretty good, but I'm really disappointed by the lack of support for the most common Bulgarian layout. I should have seen this topic before buying the app. Respect your customers, it shouldn't be such a big effort to make this change...
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Radoslav Danev (AuxRane)
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I totally agree with you. They should add the BDS standard layout because there are a lot of people using it (including me) and when they see SwiftKey doesn't support it, they won't buy it (just like I didn't).
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Anonymous
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Any update? Please, I bought this app and it is still unusable for me, without adding a simple BDS option... I am bumping this, hopefully someone will do something on the issue. Its been over a year since it was brought to your attention...
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Metodi
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After 14 months, still no progress! You claim that enclosing Bulgarian language, without the official Bulgarian BDS layout. Should we have to wait another 14 months? Shame on you!
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Anonymous
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Just bought the swiftkey 3 since it's on sale and I'm pretty dissapointed for no BDS on Bulgarian language. I don't think it's such a big deal to include one - you will only gain from this. Please, pdo something about it. In the meantime I cannot use the SK3...
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Anonymous
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1 year since we asked for this and still nothing. :(
I don't know what to say. Shame. -
Boby Tsekov
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Please, add BDS layout!
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Anonymous
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No BDS!!!
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Catherine Ossakowsky
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I have the same need of BDS layout...
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Dimitar
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Still nothing from you. What a shame.
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Anonymous
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BDS, Please
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Ivan Dimitrov
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I made my own BDS keyboard back in the WnMo days using and modifying the existing Phonetic keyboard of another keyboard app.
It is so easy. Just took me 10 minutes. Once you have the dictionary and all the rest, replacing only the places of the letters on the keyboard layout is child play.
So I don't understand you, Swiftkey Gus! Please, DO IT ALREADY!
Thanks! -
Anonymous
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I'm getting the feeling SwiftKey has completely forgotten about our request. Is this the case, guys? If you're not planning on adding the BDS layout, let us know so we can stop checking this thread and move to a different keyboard app.
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Yuliyan Kaloyanov
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I stop using SwiftKey and will suggest all my friends to avoid it until there is BDS support.
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Dimitar
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Any progress update? Please tell us. It's taking too long.
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Alexander Ivanov
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I would also like to see BDS layout added. I hope you guys didn't forget it. It's just a key rearrangement after all.