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

[Brent Christian]

Thanks, Steve.  That's good feedback - thanks for giving it a try.

-Brent

On 1/23/13 9:34 AM, Steve Hannah wrote:
> I tried with jdk8-b73 and it appears to work properly without the
> LC_CTYPE workaround.
>
> On a side note, I sent the Appbundler LC_CTYPE patch to Marco and he
> has applied it to his Appbundler fork already.
>
> Best regards
>
> Steve
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 22/01/2013 21:41, Steve Hannah wrote:
>>>
>>> I just wanted to post my experiences with this bug.  I was having
>>> trouble on OS X in both 1.7.0u11 and 1.7.0u12 with Japanese file names
>>> (File.exists() erroneously returning false).
>>>
>> Can you try jdk8-b73 in your environment without the app bundle change and
>> see if you still have an issue? Brent pushed a change to b73 that defaults
>> the value of sun.jnu.encoding to UTF-8 on Mac and we think this should the
>> issues that several folks on this list have reported. There are several
>> other changes in this general area so rnning with the latest jdk8 build
>> means a build with all the changes. I know Brent is planning on getting
>> wider feedback from folks that are willing to try out jdk8 builds. We need
>> this before backports to jdk7u can be considered.
>>
>> -Alan
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