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>マイ検索</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