Hi, folks! After some testing jdk1.1.5v3a on RH5.1/glibc2.0.6-19 I found HOW one can input Russian ( see my prev. posting) but Russian input does not wokr correctly anyway. Problem is internal char representation - Russian koi8 input shold be converted in Unicode but jdk does no conversion. So, problem with Russian koi8 chars still persists and jdk/Linux still unusable for former SU part of world. FYI, koi8 is standard network encoding for former SU (RFC 1489) , see http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/koi8.html Bye, SY, Look_in