[QA] Is it possible to send actual keypresses instead of strings?

[James Forrester]

I believe Inez (copied) from Wikia who is working on VisualEditor said that
the Java Selenium driver could do this, but that others generally couldn't…
but that could be me mis-remembering.


On 11 September 2013 21:17, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>wrote:

> If I understand correctly, Selenium's send_keys send strings or characters
> rather then actual keypresses.
>
> Is there a way to send actual keypresses? It's useful for testing
> different keyboard layouts. See my question on StackOverflow about it:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18754576/can-i-use-seleniums-send-keys-or-some-other-function-to-send-actual-keys-rather
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