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

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 19:05:31 -0400

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> 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.