Yes this is a horrible side effect of a fix for key press/key release
events requested by an ISVs

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4371923.html

It is committed to be fixed 

regards
calvin

Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Joi" == Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>     Joi> On 30 Oct 2000, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
>     >> >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Schönfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  writes:
>     >>
>     Christoph> I have installed JBuilder 4 on RedHat 6.2 and noticed
>     Christoph> that I can not type certain characters, such as
>     Christoph> *,+,?,\,', etc. This does not seem to be a RedHat
>     Christoph> problem though - I could reproduce it with Debian/Woody
>     Christoph> and Forte for Java. I use Sun's JDK 1.3 in both cases.
>     >>
>     >> It's a bug in Sun's version, our 1.3.0 doesn't have this
>     >> problem.
> 
>     Joi> Under what conditions does this bug manifest itself?  I'm
>     Joi> running JBuilder 4 under both IBM 1.3 (the jvm provided with
>     Joi> JB4, by the way) and Sun 1.3, as well as a number of apps I'm
>     Joi> developing, and I've not seen this.
> 
> You'll only see this with non-US keyboard layouts.
> 
>     Joi> The only glitches I've seen are running JBuilder 4 under Sun
>     Joi> 1.3, is in the editor pane the escape and del keys input a
>     Joi> garbage character into the document being editted.
> 
> This may happen with our version as well.  We are working on a fix.
> 
>         Juergen
> 
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