robot.keyTap('ñ') not working for any accented characters.

[shubhibhatt2007]

I am very new to robotjs,please help if someonne has faced simillar issue before. I need to press a key on my desktop application - some Spanish,German and Portugese characters. I am trying to send a few accented characters using keyTap method. But I get "Error: Invalid key code specified." error each time. Non accented characters working fine though.

Expected Behavior

keyTap should work with accented characters.

Current Behavior

Gettinng "Error: Invalid key code specified." error each time.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

I am just trying to send keyTap for a shortcut on my desktop App. the shortcut is - ñ. robot.keyTap('ñ')

Context

Also occurinng for other accented characters like - ö,ä etc

Your Environment

• RobotJS version: 0.5.1
• Node.js version:node-v8.9.1
• npm version:5.5.1
• Operating System:Mojave 10.14.6

[oktapodia]

Can you add a reproducible example please?

[amunhoz]

I think is very simple to replicate the problem:

var robot = require("robotjs"); robot.keyTap('ñ')

Result: Error: Invalid key code specified.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04

Have the same problem here.