On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Dan Leary wrote:
I'm not one of Blackdown's developers, nor do I have a solution for you.
What do I have is the same problem. The '<' key produces '>' only in a
Java App. if numluck is on, then '<' produces '*>'. This same app does
not behave this way on other platform (Sun, Mac, Unix, Windows). We are
running jdk117, RH5.2, Alpha 21164.
-dave
> Blackdown-Linux developers-
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out which layer of code
> (JDK, Linux, XFree86, etc) is responsible for some
> anomalous behavior. I'm having trouble with
> java.awt.TextFields (and TextAreas) that don't
> capture a less-than character typed in by the user
> (it appears as a greater-than character). AWT
> KeyEvents do, however, see the less-than character
> properly.
>
> Test code and ldconfig -D output are attached.
>
> I've scoured Jitterbug and the mail list archives
> and not found any help. I'm not seeing the symptoms
> which are supposedly fixed by LD_PRELOAD=libBrokenLocale.so,
> but I have tried this, and I just get a seg fault.
>
> I would have filed a new bug but I'm still not sure
> this is actually a jdk bug. Any help you could provide
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Dan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> jdk: 1.1.6v5 (also reproduces on 1.1.7v1a)
> arch: libc5-x86
> linux: slack 3.5.0
