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