Unable to type characters with accent

Hi,

I posted my question already in the swing forum, but they told me to post it here... so here is the description of my problem:

on my linux system (Linux localhost 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 16 13:53:53 CEST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux) I am unable to type characters with an accent (, , ...) in swing / AWT based applications. I have this problem in netbeans. I was also able to reproduce the problem with a tiny swing application (so it's not a NebBeans specific problem). I tried several JVMs (Sun JDK 1.4.2.15, Sun JDK 1.5.0.12, Sun JRE 1.6.0.02), always the same problem.

Displaying these characters works well, so I think it is not a font issue.

Eclipse (which uses SWT I suppose) works well with characters with accent.

Maybe it is a configuration issue.

Thx in advance for the help.

[889 byte] By [oki78a] at [2007-11-27 11:33:56]
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It would help if you describe the problem in a little more detail:

- How do you type the characters in question - do you use for instance a German, French, Spanish keyboard layout, or do you try to type them using Alt+number combinations? Or some other way?

- When you say you are "unable to type characters with an accent", what exactly happens when you try? Does any character get entered, or nothing at all? What do you end up with?

- What kind of specific fields/forms are we talking about?

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