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Hotkeys don't work on Windows with non en-us keyboard layout

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Description

Current way of matching hotkey with `event.key` property leads to broken hotkeys on Windows (Chrome, Vivaldi at least) as, for example with ru-RU locale on keybord hitting cmd+b will send event with `key` property set to cyrillic "и" and not "b".

First it was found in https://github.com/umputun/remark/issues/404

Images provided by @Andrew-Shtein prove difference in `key` prop
![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12440746/62982919-fe164e00-be70-11e9-8ae5-44a37d90ef3e.png)
![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12440746/62982927-040c2f00-be71-11e9-8ab1-2e76abb9c45d.png)

Issue located here:
https://github.com/github/markdown-toolbar-element/blob/dd0ffba8d9ad9d64471d3be41b3b7e1b77aa3545/index.js#L228-L236

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