keyCode on android is always 229

Question

On my Samsung Galaxy tab 4 (Android 4.4.2, Chrome: 49.0.2623.105) I ran into a situation where the keyCode is always 229.

I\'ve setup a simple test for two situatio

Answer 1

I was having the same issue on Samsung S7 phones. Solved it by replacing event from keydown to keypress.

$("div, input").keypress(function (e) {
    $("#keycode").html(e.which); 
});

jQuery normalizes this stuff, so there's no need to use anything other than e.which https://stackoverflow.com/a/302161/259881