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    <bug>
          <bug_id>25013</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2014-03-11 22:05:37 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Remove or change misleading Character types</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2014-07-25 22:14:05 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>Browser Test/Tools WG</product>
          <component>WebDriver</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>All</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/561e13778acb/webdriver-spec.html#typing-keys</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          <blocked>20860</blocked>
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Marc Fisher">fisherii</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Browser Testing and Tools WG">public-browser-tools-testing</assigned_to>
          <cc>ato</cc>
    
    <cc>dburns</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>w3.org</cc>
          
          <qa_contact name="Browser Testing and Tools WG">public-browser-tools-testing</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>102222</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Marc Fisher">fisherii</who>
    <bug_when>2014-03-11 22:05:37 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>This table of special characters includes pairs such as SHIFT and LEFT_SHIFT that use the same character code. This means that there is no way for a remote end to distinguish between these values. We should either remove the secondary version of these (as their presence is misleading) or assign the secondary version a different character code so that remote ends can implement them when it makes sense.

We also need to specify what should happen if a particular special character is not available on some remote end.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>102237</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Andreas Tolfsen">ato</who>
    <bug_when>2014-03-12 13:33:55 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>(In reply to Marc Fisher from comment #0)
&gt; We also need to specify what should happen if a particular special character
&gt; is not available on some remote end.

If that&apos;s the case it will just be interpreted as a normal key.  Since “special characters” are Unicode escape sequences they will be treated as any other character you tell the driver to type.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>108756</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="David Burns :automatedtester">dburns</who>
    <bug_when>2014-07-07 16:00:59 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Resolution to remove aliases</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>109301</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="David Burns :automatedtester">dburns</who>
    <bug_when>2014-07-25 22:14:05 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/rev/0138692daae1</thetext>
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    </bug>

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