Derek Alard's predictive search and utf-8 encoding

[eluser]Loquela[/eluser]
Thanks all,

I'm testing locally using xampp and the non-English characters are encoding/decoding fine in other apps om th esame server. I am using Derek Alard's sample application and all I have done is to change the databse so it references my own dictionary. Everything works fine exept for the encoding:

html headers set to utf-8
all files saved as utf-8
database collation, tables and data encoding to utf-8

I'm baffled.

L.