Creating a link to a Multibyte file with PDF 1.4

I am trying to create a link to a file that contains multibyte characters (specifically Japanese) - unfortunately, I need to conform to the PDF 1.4 standard (I can make things work fine using PDF 1.7 and /UF).
The 1.7 standard says that as of PDF 1.2, a file specification can contain multibyte character codes if you represent them in hexadecimal format. I cannot get this to work, and wonder if someone has any insight into why this might be.
My multibyte file spec is UTF-8 encoded, and this is how I write it (in hex) to the document (without thr UTF-8 BOM). When I later click on that link, I get an error that the specified document does not exist - the part of the filespec that is English characters are displayed correctly, but the Japanese characters show up incorrectly.
Does Acrobat expect these characters to be UTF-8 encoded, or otherwise? I've tried prepended the UTF-8 BOM, but that didn't make a difference. Do I need to UTF-16BE encode them (like with /UF)?
Additional info: I've tried using Acrobat 5 to create a new PDF and inserted a link to a file whose name contains Japanese characters - when clicking on the link in this, I also get the 'file does not exist' error. Also, looking in the PDF, the filespec is NOT hex encoded, and the Japanese characters have been replaced by ???.

Hmm... so, what does it mean when the 1.7 spec says 'In PDF 1.2 or higher, a file specification may contain multiple-byte character
codes, represented in hexadecimal form between angle brackets (< and >).'? If Acrobat 5 supports PDF 1.4, I would have thought this would mean that Acrobat 5 would support multibyte character codes...
I would guess that this puts the final nail in the coffin of creating links to filenames with non Roman characters from Acrobat 5.
Just so I can report this upwards, I see that you are an Adobe employee - are you a support person?

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