Intellij 12 Ultimate is having problems with international characters - internationalization

Question

I have multiple problems with Intellij 12 on my Mac.
If I create a project with in a directroy containg norwegian characters, the IDE is not able to find the project directory and will not even start the compile process
If I have a Java Class with an international character, the compiler throws this out
13.app/lib/idea_rt.jar" com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain Fårekjøtt
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: F��rekj��tt
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:188)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:113)
Process finished with exit code 1
What is the correct way to go about fixing this?

Answer 1

Mac SDK 1.7_40 has a fix for a known bug causing this problem. If you add the Oracle SDK 1.7_40 to IDEA, it compiles.
From Jetbrains support;
You are trying to compile with Oracle JDK 1.7 on Mac which has known
problems with encoding on this system. Please use the default Apple
JDK to avoid this problem or convert your files to UTF-8. I've
verified that compilation with Apple JDK 1.6 works without problems:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4rga4d0zphksvvd/Screenshot%202013-10-04%2020.20.44.png
. Don't forget to remove the invalid -encoding option that you have
added to Preferences | Compiler. If using JDK 1.6 is not an option,
you can also try JDK 1.7.0_40 version from Oracle which may (or may
not) have a fix for this problem.