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jdk : j2sdk Merlin-beta3 b82
OS : Solaris sparc 8 and 9 / x86 7
         Windows 98 2nd, NT SP6 japanese
         RedHat Linux 7.1
locale : ja locale
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java throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError on ja locale and can not launch any demo or application using beta3-b82.
Launching demo or application, "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError" is thrown.
And demo or application does not work.

Steps to reproduce;
1) In case of Solaris or Linux, login with ja locale
2) Install j2sdk merlin-beta3 b82
3) launch any demo
 
  % java -jar SwingSet2.jar
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: SwingSet2
or
  % java -jar Font2DTest.jar
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Font2DTest
or
  % java -jar Notepad.jar
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Notepad
or
  % java -server -jar SwingSet2.jar
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: SwingSet2
or
  % java -d64 -jar SwingSet2.jar
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: SwingSet2

Then, exception is thrown and demo does not work.

This phenomenon is not seen in English locale.

A similar problem is filed as a bug #4510701.