HTML Characters and symbols

same problem for me

Same thing here.

The same problem, how to solve?

Me too ?? Would be awesome to get this right. Great plugin!

This issue is resolved in the latest update (2.1.14).

Awesome! Thank you sir.

Upgrade to 2.1.14 instead – shows & #8212;, please help to fix.

All the latest posts are about HTML decimal values that replace anything that is not alphanumeric.

2.1.14 still generates some.

Are you guys still having issues with Hyphens even with the latest update? I am getting &#8211 instead of the expected “-”

Guys

I think I fixed this… but I have never actually edited a plugin in my life and have no clue what I am doing… so if someone can check on this that would be great. I saw in search-autocomplete/searchautocomplete.php this line

$results[$index]['title'] = htmlspecialchars_decode( $result['title'] );

In researching… I think what is supposed to be used is html_entity_decode()
See documentation here – https://php.net/html_entity_decode

So… I tried this… and it worked! Basically we got to decode UTF-8.

$results[$index]['title'] = html_entity_decode(htmlspecialchars_decode( $result['title'] ),ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');

Maybe we don’t need to wrap that around the htmlspecialchars_decdoe funtion… maybe it is supposed to be used in place of it… but I’m going to keep the above because it seems to work.

I’ve pushed an update (2.1.15) that should apply this fix. Can you confirm this resolves the special character issues you were experiencing? Thanks!