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Developer Studio crashes on startup with a fatal Java Runtime EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION inside awt.dll, generating an hs_err_pid log, specifically on a machine running a non-English Windows locale (like Japanese).

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This is a known OpenJDK bug in the AWT/window-initialization code, affecting the JDK 14 version bundled with Developer Studio at this release, and it's fixed starting in a later JDK version (16) that Developer Studio doesn't yet ship with. Until Developer Studio is updated to a newer bundled JDK where this is fixed, the practical workaround is switching the Windows OS language to English instead of the affected non-English locale — this avoids triggering the specific AWT code path that crashes. If you're stuck needing the non-English locale for other reasons, this is worth reporting to IFS R&D as a request to update the bundled JDK version.

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