diff -r 1f81291f492b glass-mat-lib-x11/src/com/sun/glass/ui/GlassView.c
--- a/glass-mat-lib-x11/src/com/sun/glass/ui/GlassView.c	Wed Jun 01 12:44:33 2011 -0700
+++ b/glass-mat-lib-x11/src/com/sun/glass/ui/GlassView.c	Thu Jun 02 23:32:40 2011 -0700
@@ -338,15 +338,18 @@
         char buffer[20];
         KeySym xkeysym;
         buffer[0] = 0;
+        /* FIXME This only handles Latin-1 characters - if that. */
         int len = XLookupString((XKeyEvent*)event,buffer,sizeof(buffer),
             &xkeysym, NULL);
 
+#if 0
         printf("keyEvent sym=%d/%x %s %d keycode %d/%x mod %x\n",
                 (int)xkeysym, (int)xkeysym,
                 buffer, len,
                 event->xkey.keycode,
                 event->xkey.keycode,
                 event->xkey.state);
+#endif
 
         int keycode = mat_GetJavaKeyCode(xkeysym);
         jcharArray jChars = NULL;
@@ -363,7 +366,11 @@
         // always return a char array, even if zero length
         jChars = (*gw->env)->NewCharArray(gw->env, len);
         if (len > 0) {
-             (*gw->env)->SetCharArrayRegion(gw->env, jChars, 0, len, (jchar *)&buffer);
+             jchar jbuffer[20];
+             int i = len > 20 ? 20 : len;
+             while (--i >= 0)
+               jbuffer[i] = (jchar) (buffer[i] & 0xff);
+             (*gw->env)->SetCharArrayRegion(gw->env, jChars, 0, len, &jbuffer);
         }
 
         if (pressed) {