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.
