Where does the data come from? Remote from the server or local data? With remote data you could implement it on the server, without having to change anything in the autocomplete script.
Jörn On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Srini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > We need a solution how to handle special character issue in our > application. We integrated a multiple selection id from the > autocomplete (as like facebook autocomplete search) library (which > developed in prototype). > > The following is our need, > When we enter normal characters (a to z), it should match with the > json data (from the preset data only the autocomplete search fetches > the result) and display the results. The actual need is, when we enter > 'koln' in the textbox field the autocomplete should also fetch/match > the 'köln' from the data. But, it is not working now like that. > > Question is, when we enter an normal character -- whether there is any > possibility to convert this character into all the other language > characters and do the match. It means if i type 'o', than it should > give us an 'o' like characters which is available in other languages > (ex: ö - no matter the letter is german or russian) > > I would like to know, how does we can achieve this. > > Other infos, > 1/. I tried with changing charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 in the > server. > 2/. I tried with changing charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8(vice versa) > in the autocomplete search page.. but no results yet. > 3/. Also, I tried with changing charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and > other charsets types in the prototype.js too. > > Note: > In facebook, they having this feature. > > Thanks, > Srinivasan M >
