What should I do to have russian characters in TextField && TextArea. Other AWT controls works fine with Russian chars. I read the Blackdown FAQ about Japanese characters in JDK on Linux. There is partial solution only for libc 5, but I have Debian 2.0 && glibc-2.0.7 May be there is a solution for 8-bit international codepages for glibc ? Can JDK 1.2 helps me ? What is a main problem for internationalization JDK for Linux libc or XFree or, may be, JDK itself ;-)