File.exists() does not work on mac for non-English characters on Java 7 on Mac

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/10/2012 16:47, Thorkelsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Agust Thorkelsson and I'm the owner of a company called Sideline Sports. We produce software for professional sport coaches. We have encountered a huge problem that we can't seem to find a workaround for.
>
> We have customers in many countries in Europe and almost all of them have non-english characters in filenames of files they use in our systems.
>
> The Java 7 upgrade for Mac basically renders our software unusable. This is only on Mac.
>
> Scott Kovatch instructed me to file a bug for this and e-mail this address for a discussion. I'm hoping you have some kind of workaround you can let us know about. It would be much appreciated! The filed bug can be seen beneath.
>
> I'm sure this bug breaks a lot of Java software here in Europe and not in a clean way either. File.exists() is a popular method to use.
>
Can you try jdk8 and tell us if this resolves the issue you are seeing? 
jdk8 has the changes for 7130915.

-Alan.