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

[Paul Taylor]

On 16/10/2012 16:33, David Kocher wrote:
> On 11.10.2012, at 14:09, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/10/2012 13:06, Þorvaldur Blöndal wrote:
>>> @Alan I registered 2356502 on bugs.sun.com that has a link to the JIRA-case.
>> David Kocher reports that the issue that he was seeing is resolved in jdk8 (recent builds). Have you tried jdk8?
>>
>> -Alan
>
> The question remains when this will be backported to JDK 7.
>
> -- David
I think I'm seeing the same problem

I have a file containing within its name the following char



file.exists() fails for this file


I'm using with "1.7.0_10-ea", is this going to be fixed soon in Java 7 , 
or is there a workaround I can apply to my bundled application to 
resolve this ?

Paul