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by jedbrown 5056 days ago
Unfortunately, xdotool type is schizophrenic with multiple keyboard layouts

http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/issues/detail?id=13

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An admittedly obscure corner case.

(Though I'm not defending the X keyboard API. Linux input is a nightmare. I especially like the hard-coded list of keys in the kernel, limiting the number of unique keys that any userspace application can address, even though it's perfectly possible to plug in 128 keyboards each with several hundred keys.)