[i18n-activity] Why reduce accesskey values to a single code point?

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== Why reduce accesskey values to a single code point? ==
5.5.2. The accesskey attribute
http://w3c.github.io/html/editing.html#the-accesskey-attribute

> The user agent may strip content from value to reduce the length of value to a single unicode code point. 

Why is this done? What benefit does it bring?  Note that Chrome and Safari are capable of matching an accesskey attribute against a keypress that produces more than one character (see https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/results/accesskey#multiple).

This also seems to contradict earlier text:

> Printable characters that may represent more than one Unicode code point, such as accesskey="श्र", are valid values.  

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Received on Friday, 15 September 2017 12:16:11 UTC