[8u] RFR: 8214578: [macos] Problem with backslashes on macOS/JIS keyboard: Java ignores system settings

[Alex Kashchenko]

On 10/11/21, Sergey Bylokhov <bylokhov at amazon.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the pointers! I've checked that 8234786 and 8248532 can be
>> applied cleanly on top of this change and marked both of them for 8u
>> approval. I intend to push all 3 changes at once when this patch is
>> reviewed and all of them are approved.
>
> Did you have a chance to reproduce these issues?

I am unable to reproduce the crash on macOS 10.14 with 8u-dev (with
8214578 applied) with muCommander 0.9.3 changing from US to Romaji
multiple times.


> Can you confirm that
> crashes are resolved by these
> changes?

Unfortunately, no.


>Am not sure that the list of fixes above is complete.

Besides 8248532 I can see 8257242 (that is also backported to 15, 13
and 11). I've checked that it can be applied to 8u, just it also
depends on a header change from 8234786. I assume 8257242 should go
into 8u too if 8214578 is approved.


PS: if someone with a deep knowledge in this area thinks that 8214578
is too dangerous for 8u, it may be better to explicitly mark it with
"8u-rejected" or something similar.

-- 
-Alex