Edgy: Can't enter russian (cyrillic) letters in Java apps

Bug #64336 reported by Dmitry Maruschenko
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Bug Description

When I am trying to enter russian letters in any Java application, I get some funny symbols like hieroglyphs or arabian letters instead of cyrillic letters.

My distro is Kubuntu Edgy Eft, Java 1.5 (Sun).

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Dmitry Maruschenko (yojick) wrote :

Still have this error...

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Vladimir Znak (init-sub) wrote :

To fix this bug, you should change 2 strings in file /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir:

-ru_RU.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE ru_RU.UTF-8
-ru_RU.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: ru_RU.UTF-8

+en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE ru_RU.UTF-8
+en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE: ru_RU.UTF-8

Maybe there is another fix, but i think it's a real bug. There is no directory ru_RU.UTF-8 in /usr/share/X11/locale/

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Dmitry Maruschenko (yojick) wrote :

I made these changes, but no effect =(

Also I made these changes in locale.alias

-ru ru_RU.ISO8859-5
-ru_RU ru_RU.ISO8859-5
+ru ru_RU.UTF-8
+ru_RU ru_RU.UTF-8

but still no effect, as you can see on the screenshot.

Another funny thing is that letters appear at the left of the string, as if I have right-to-left direction instead of normal LtR.

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Dmitry Maruschenko (yojick) wrote :

Cyrillic input works perfect only when I run the program with "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" command before it.
So, I found a temporary workaround, but the problem still exists.

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ivach (ivach) wrote :

>Cyrillic input works perfect only when I run the program with >"export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" command before it.
>So, I found a temporary workaround, but the problem still exists.

It is no temporary workaround! It work ONLY for Latin menu of programs...
Temporary workaround is export LANG=ru_US.UTF-8

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trollord (trollenlord) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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