Search Provider with <ShortName> containing non-english characters fails to get added on Windows

[dpb]

Dear Members,


- While writing an Search Provider for IE11, I found that if the
<ShortName> tag contains Japanese characters then such a provider fails to
get added on Windows.

IOpenServiceManager fails on non-english OS
HRESULT returned is -1072896760. MSG_E_BADCHARDATA, which means "An invalid character was found in text content"


- This looks to me a bug from Microsoft. Since we are using UTF-8, I
think <ShortName> can contain Japanese characters.


- Changing <ShortName> to have english character works for me.


- Please advise / comment while I file an case with MS.


- My search provider is as below


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>マむ怜玢</ShortName>
<Image width="16" height="16"
type="image/icon">http://xyz.shopping.com/images/favicon.ico</Image>
<Url type="text/html"
template="http://www.google.com/search?q={SearchTerms}"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>


Thank you,

dpb