diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollectionFile.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollectionFile.cpp
index 1a2e1b42e..d5f9413c4 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollectionFile.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollectionFile.cpp
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ bool RsCollectionFile::save(const QString& filename) const
 	}
 
 	QTextStream stream(&file) ;
+	stream.setCodec("UTF-8") ;
 
 	stream << _xml_doc.toString() ;
 
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsUrlHandler.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsUrlHandler.cpp
index 5b200b859..47b757446 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsUrlHandler.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsUrlHandler.cpp
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ bool RsUrlHandler::openUrl(const QUrl& url)
 {
 	if(url.scheme() == QString("file") && url.toLocalFile().endsWith("."+RsCollectionFile::ExtensionString))
 	{
-		RsCollectionFile Collection;
-		if (Collection.load(url.toLocalFile().toUtf8().constData())) {
-			Collection.downloadFiles() ;
+		try
+		{
+			RsCollectionFile(url.toLocalFile()).downloadFiles() ;
 		}
 		return true;
 	}