bug#1111: describe-key's key notation display inconsistency

[Noam Postavsky]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
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> The value of the event is a symbol.

I don't understand where you're getting that idea from.

(info "(elisp) Keyboard Events"):

    There are two kinds of input you can get from the keyboard: ordinary
    keys, and function keys.  Ordinary keys correspond to (possibly
    modified) characters; the events they generate are represented in Lisp
    as characters.