[Exist-open] Problem with collection() function

[Benoit M. <Benoit.Mercier@USherbrooke.ca>]

Hi,

I am using eXist stable version (Linux, Tomcat5.5, Saxon9) on a 
production system and encounter a strange problem with the collection() 
Xquery function.

If I create a collection named "ç" (or any of the following letters: µ, 
å, °, ©, ô, î, ê, è, â, à, é, ï) and populate them with some documents, 
the call to

    collection("/db/articles/ç")/count(./*)

always return 0!

And a call to

    collection("/db/articles/ç")

returns an empty sequence.  The source of the wrong behavior...

Documents inside these collections are indexed, searchable via 
Xquery/Xpath, visible/manageable via InteractiveClient, etc.  The 
problem only occurs with the collection() and xcollection() function 
calls.  Sounds like a character encoding issue.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best regards,

Benoit (mercibe)