jqgrid displays garbled characters when I hover over the cell data for UTF-8(for example chinese) characters. But the grid displays the data correctly. Is it a limitation or is there a way to display the data correctly in the title/tooltip?
Head section has content-type set correctly.
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″/>
Here is the screen shot of the issue…

sorry, but I couldn’t reproduce the problem either with local data (see the first demo) nor with JSON data (see the second demo). I have always the results like the following
Probably you used some very old web browsers or make some other errors. I hope that if you compare your code with my working demos you will find the reason of the problem.