Your IDEA was incorrect ($.jgrid.useJSON = false; had nothing to do with it), but the remark about the single quote made me check my strings...

what I have found is that I was not converting single quote correctly in my JSON.

THANK YOU!

Could you please set this

$.jgrid.useJSON = false;

This does not turn JSON off. This turn off the build in JSON.parse in FF35, IE8,Chrome ... browsers
Also turning this option off will cause using of eval insted of buil in JSON.
The reason for this is trivilal - your output is performed with ' (single quote) INSTED OF " (DOUBLE)
The build in JSON does not like single quotes like {'myname':'Some'....}
insted you should
{"myname":"Some"...} in the response.

Regards
Tony

You want me to close json? to use local data?

Json_encode does tno work with none UTF and that's a fact, but that's PHP problems... not JQGRID.

I have created an example with JSON in non UTF, the charactes you see are hebrew (windows-1255).

I'm not sure if json_encode works only with utf-8. IMHO this is not true. You can see strange chars in the console, but they are dispalyed correct in the browser.

Also you class is not correct written, they give me a error in FireBug console JSON.parse, which tell me that something is not correct.

In order to test with your class maybe you will need to turn off this jqGrid Settings - i.e. set it to false like this

Best Regards

Tony

My DB (DB2/400) works in windows-1255, and with my old window/grid all is ok... 

I cannt use json_encode in php since it works only with UTF8, so I got external class for that.

Attached window: 

http://192.116.242.198:89/remi...../test.html

Without that I cannt continue... 🙁

I do not think that this is jqGrid problem.

It all depends on your definition in the html, what is the encoding of the database,

if you use mysql maybe you will need to use set names command with the appropriate encoding before the request and at end you should use the header function to send the appropriate encoding before sending the data to the grid.

Regards

Tony

How can I use JQGRID with non-utf data coming from the server?