Selenium send_keys doesn't sent apostrophe

Question

In Selenium I want to input a teststring "hello'world", but the webpage's textbox becomes "helloworld". As if the apostrophe doesn't exist. Replacing "'" by chr(39) or splitsing the string doesn't do the job either.

• My part of the code: (using Chrome webdriver in python)

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://google.com")
text = "hello'world"
textbox = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//* 
[@id="tsf"]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/input')
for i in text:
    textbox.send_keys(i)
    sleep(0.1)

• Browser screenshot:

Answer 1

To send the character sequence hello'world within the search box of Google Home Page you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategy:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  
  driver.get("https://google.com")
  text = "hello'world"
  textbox = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "q")))
  for i in text:
      textbox.send_keys(i)
  

• Browser Snapshot:

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Update

Seems previously there were some issues with the non-US keyboard settings and Unicode characters while invoking send_keys(). You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• SendKeys does not work correctly with non-US keyboard settings
• send_keys("é") to IE11 element sends e instead of é
• 3.5.0 Grid - Selenium Keys / Unicode Failing

This issue was solved through the commit Fixing encoding of payload passed by hub to a node.

Using Selenium v3.5.3 should solve this issue.

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tl; dr

Change your keyboard layout