On 6/3/09 11:55 PM, "Gustavo Salomé" <gustavon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No way you can do this unless you do have 'switch' that converts all > elements to its respective non-utf8 code. how is the search string encoded in the q parameter sent to the backend? whatever conversion is needed, isn't it easier to do in the backend than in client js? > 2009/6/2 Tom Worster <f...@thefsb.org> > >> >> On 6/1/09 2:48 PM, "Gui" <guilhermealcant...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm currently using this JQuery autocomplete plugin. It fits my needs, >>> pretty cool, however I'm having a hard time with accents. If I type: >>> Antonio, the plugin won't retrieve Antônio. I mean, it won't handle >>> the special characters (á, à, é, í, ó, ú and so on.) >>> >>> Is there any option so that it can handle them? >> >> for the local database, i'm not aware of one. if you're using ajax and >> remote back end then maybe you can handle this in your script. if using >> mysql backend, perhaps setting a different collation and tweaking your >> query >> is all you need. >> >> >> >
