Weird character input in textfield when hitting CTRL+somekeys

Hi,
Whenever an input textfield has the focus, some ctrl+something key combinations (for example ctrl+s, ctrl+o) produce some weird character input, that is, these weird characters (certainly non-ascii) appear in the textfield as if you had typed them.
This is obviously a bug, but is there any workaround? How can I prevent these combinations of keys to produce any text input at all? (without removing the focus from the textfield)?
This only happens in Flash Player (and Adobe AIR): I've never seen those character appear in any application as a result of ctrl+S, ctrl+O or any key combination (except alt+<numerical character code>)
Thanks in advance
m.

I'm not entirely sure that the issue we're facing is a font issue - I've managed to set a font for the TextField in question that can handle Japanese as well as English characters (in this case I'm using the Bitstream Cyberbit font), following guidelines in an article on the subject:
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/04/12/internationalization.html
If I enter the Japanese characters in a window of a native application, and then copy & paste into the TextField in my Java applet, they appear when using this font, and it seems like the applet can interpret them OK (in IE at least, still haven't tested in NS as yet) - the problem is that when entering the characters directly into the applet using the Win2k IME facility, they only appear as question marks.
Damian.

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