@Sebastian:

I firmly disagree with setting "Importance: Low".

Sure you might say that geez if pressing a key did something else, you
can just undo that action, press some magic sequence of keys, and you're
okay. No security problem, no data loss (actually I'm not even sure
about these)...

But for me, this is a bug that's causing a constant high amount of
stress. I mean, I hit this once a couple of minutes, each time adding a
little bit of frustration for not being able to use the most basic input
device that I'm using all the time.

Heck, ever since I started using computers, which was the ZX Spectrum
almost 30 years ago, through DOS and Windows 95 and other Windowses, and
my first Slackware Linux with kernel 2.0 in 1996, sometimes using other
non-Linux Unices too, now for the first time ever we've reached a point
where certain keys on the keyboard, under certain circumstances, fail to
do the only thing that they need to do: emit the correct symbol.

If pressing 'A' would, 1 out of 100 times, insert a 'B' instead of 'A',
would you say it's "low" because you can backspace and type it again?
I'd say it's critical.

I've learned touch typing a long time ago, I'm often looking at a piece
of paper of something like that when typing, knowing that the computer
does what I'm telling it to do. It's unacceptable if, for the first time
ever after using computers for 30 years, I need to verify on the screen
that each keypress does indeed what it needs to do.

I'd say if, with the NumLock turned on, trying to insert a digit '7'
moves the cursor Home instead, it's CRITICAL. It's the very essential of
every computer that the keys need to do what they are intended to do, no
exceptions, no excuses!

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