Tag Query with Special Characters in Tag Name not working

Hello-
We are on SAP xMII 12.0 sp8.6, connecting to Honeywell's PHD. We are doing Tag Queries, and all is working well, except when there are special characters in the Tag Name (+, /, \) We have attempted to do the Encoding of the tag name, such as as is returned from the function xmlencodename and also tried URL Encoding.
Here is our tag which returns nothing.
82TK1INV.OCTANE_R+M/2
We have also tried these encoded versions, still to no avail:
82TK1INV.OCTANE_R%2BM%2F2
82TK1INV.OCTANER_M_2
Any help on how to return the values with special characters in the tag name would be very helpful!
thanks,
Paul Mazeika

To Chianti's question of why can't/shouldn't MII work with those bizarre tag names...
Actually, there are a number of reasons:
1) It's a poor design practice to use characters like that in tag names, regardless of the underlying system. That type of information is best assigned to the tag description, not the tag name. I've even seen idiots put leading spaces on tag names...figure that one out!
2) MII uses XML extensively, and XML's syntax rules dictate what is and is not acceptable for XML element and attribute names, and many of these special characters are not permitted.
3) Usage of characters in tags that also represent mathematical operators greatly complicate the parsing and processing of expressions that involve tag names
In general, it reminds of the story of the guy who walks into the doctor, bangs his fist against a specific spot on his head, and says "Doc, it hurts when I do this", to which the doctor responds, "so don't do that".
So, Don't Do That.

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