Sorry, but this is not jqGrid problem and this issue is discussed many times here:

Short:

1. Your html page should have appropriate meta for your language.

2. When you insert/update/delete your connection should have the appropriate caharcter set - in mysql this is done with SET NAMES command before doing evrething.

3. Your database should be encoded in the appropriate way.

4. When you send the output to the grid you should set the appropriate headers.

Hope this helps

Regards

Tony

After a lot of work i'm developing with jqgrid but there is a problem with my app.

I'm adding and deleting rows from my db but like my db uses spanish characters when i try to add words which have accent like "áéíóú" or "ñ" what i get in my db is this áéíóú. If i insert some values with mysql browser like 'día' when i load my jqgrid i just have a 'd' and the rest of my string isn't loaded.

So i decided to try with firebug to see what was being send t othe server  and i found this:

descMotivo variables should be éléfánté so i'm guessing i should use something like hrmlspecialchars() function or another php string function to handle that but can this be done?