ElementSendKeys sends characters with incorrect locale

[PiotrNestor]

FlaUI/FlaUI.WebDriver v0.3.1

ElementSendKeys request is:

info: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker[102]
      Route matched with {action = "ElementSendKeys", controller = "Element"}. Executing controller action with signature System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ActionResult] ElementSendKeys(System.String, System.String, FlaUI.WebDriver.Models.ElementSendKeysRequest) on controller FlaUI.WebDriver.Controllers.ElementController (FlaUI.WebDriver).

A string like

://

is input into the application like

^''

There is clearly a locale keyboard / character mapping mismatch
How to fix this?

[jensakejohansson]

After investigation we realised that the keyboard mapping in the driver implementation only seems to support US-keyboard layout.

We have in our case english windows, but swedish keyboard layout. That causes the outcome above.

[hugoMeier]

I have the same problem with the German keyboard layout.
Is there currently a different solution to the problem besides changing the keyboard layout?

[hugoMeier]

Are there efforts to solve this problem soon?

[bmarroquin]

My assumption is that nothing will happen for this until the web driver specification itself addresses the problem.

See w3c/webdriver#1743

[PiotrNestor]

@aristotelos
@hugoMeier
@jensakejohansson
@bmarroquin
I've proposed PR: #137
to resolve the issue

[PiotrNestor]

@aristotelos
@hugoMeier
@jensakejohansson
@bmarroquin

Update PR: #137
To support element SendKeys with imbedded actions including composite actions
Added some tests for this type of SendKeys.
More test is ongoing ...

Still more functionality for SendKeys is working comparing to the original implementation ...