Difficulties retrieving documents with non ascii characters in name

Question

Hello
I have a very simple container with only one document in it: *<ação nome="ação"/>*
When using the dbxml shell to retrieve it, no problem:
dbxml> open teste.dbxml
dbxml> get "ação"
1 documents found
dbxml> print
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ação nome="ação"/>
(The strange characters appear because my terminal uses Latin1 encoding.)
But I cannot retrieve the document with a very simple Java program (left out basic environment setup for clarity - I will put the full code in a follow-up post):
String name = new String("ação"); +// will cause: com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlException: Error: Document not found: ação, errcode = DOCUMENT_NOT_FOUND+
// String name = new String("ação".getBytes(), utf8); +// will cause: com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlException: Error: Document not found: ação, errcode = DOCUMENT_NOT_FOUND+
String name = new String("ação".getBytes(), latin1); +// will cause: com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlException: Error: Document not found: ação, errcode = DOCUMENT_NOT_FOUND+
XmlDocument doc = container.getDocument(tx, name);
Almost certainly this problem has to do something with the encoding of the name, but I cannot see why.
Thank you very much for looking into this,
Greetings,
Koen

Answer 1

As promised, the full Java code of this basic program:
package info.carrapateira;
import com.sleepycat.dbxml.*;
import com.sleepycat.db.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.charset.*;
public class DbxmlTest2 {
     static Charset utf8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
     static Charset latin1 = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          EnvironmentConfig envCfg = new EnvironmentConfig();
          envCfg.setAllowCreate(true);
          envCfg.setInitializeCache(true);
          envCfg.setInitializeLocking(true);
          envCfg.setInitializeLogging(true);
          envCfg.setRunRecovery(true);
          envCfg.setTransactional(true);
          Environment env = null;
          XmlManager manager = null;
          XmlContainer container = null;
          XmlTransaction tx = null;
          try {
               env = new Environment(new File(args[0]), envCfg);
               XmlManagerConfig cfg = new XmlManagerConfig();
               cfg.setAdoptEnvironment(true);
               manager = new XmlManager(env, cfg);
               XmlContainerConfig ctCfg = new XmlContainerConfig();
               ctCfg.setTransactional(true);
               container = manager.openContainer("teste.dbxml", ctCfg);
               tx = manager.createTransaction();
               String name = new String("ação"); // com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlException: Error: Document not found: ação, errcode = DOCUMENT_NOT_FOUND
               // String name = new String("ação".getBytes(), utf8); // com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlException: Error: Document not found: ação, errcode = DOCUMENT_NOT_FOUND
               //String name = new String("ação".getBytes(), latin1); // com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlException: Error: Document not found: ação, errcode = DOCUMENT_NOT_FOUND
               XmlDocument doc = container.getDocument(tx, name);
               tx.commit();
          } catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
               try {
                    tx.abort();
               } catch (Exception e1) {
                    e1.printStackTrace();
          } finally {
               try {
                    container.close();
                    manager.close();
               } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
}