Now, after NetBeans 6.9 was released (which is not affected with the
described problem), this bug has not any importance no more.
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Cyrillic characters can't be entered in NetBeans editor
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576258
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I have found that the problem is only related to the Netbeans
distributions packaged by Sun. I have also installed the same Netbeans
6.8 from Ubuntu deb packages side by side with Sun's Netbeans and have
seen that it accepts cyrillic input well.
But this hasn't cured the Sun's Netbeans - it keeps
Public bug reported:
I cannot enter cyrillic characters in NetBeans 6.8 editor under Lucid
Lynx. I can switch the keyboard to the Russian layout (which is
indicated with Gnome keyboard applet and the Scroll-lock LED), but the
characters entered appear as latin ones, not cyrillic, as if they were
