weird characters in the url

[eluser]shadow player[/eluser]

I hope you understand what i wrote , my english aren’t so good.

It's ok, i understood it.

Do you suggest a different method to achive search results with pagination?

Personally I would write the pagination myself, it's not that hard and you can achieve much more flexibility.

What (source code) do you get when you do this:

Code:

echo $search_terms;

In your Index method when receiving $_POST information.

My guess would be that it's not being transferred as UTF-8 but try it and let me know, this can't be that difficult to solve.