Toni Nikkanen writes:
>
> Is there a way to make scandinavic letters behave correctly in AWT
> components with Steve Byrne's Linux JDK 1.1.6-glibc? I have noticed that
> in a TextArea, whenever a call to TextArea.append() is done with a String
> containing scandinavic letters, it causes the append method to simply
> quit, leaving the String chopped. The last character of the String that
> gets appended is the one before the scandinavic evil letter. Not even the
> newline at the end of my String gets anywhere.
> Stranger still, if the code happens to be in the constructor of my Frame
> subclass, which creates a TextArea and places it within itself, the entire
> constructor function quietly quits! I was quite puzzled why my for loop
> that iterates a list of 100 items to print quitted at the fifth line.
> Inputting scandinavic letters doesn't work, either. There is no reaction
> when pressing such a key.
> However it happily reads them from files and they get printed just nicely
> with System.out.println(), so I'm pretty sure it's the AWT part where the
> problem is.
>
Some fonts (Times Roman and Helvetica) work properly with these characters.
1.1.6v2 will have a fix so that these letters show up properly.
Steve
