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A couple thoughts.
Have you looked at the demo version of accent folding at
http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#folding

Second, your array is not proper JSON format. If you are using something like the demo code, you'll need to stick with JSON format.  You can test the format of your array at   jsonlint.com to ensure it is proper.

The accent folding demo is very simple, and name in grep works because name is defined a few lines above as a variable with 3 names in it.  You have a more complicated situation and need to go out, run the php, and return a the results defined as a variable.  I'll try to help, but this is complicated.  You need something like the following code.

        $("#stateProvince").autocomplete
        ({
            source: function( request, response )
            {                 
                $.ajax(
                {
                    url: "getStateProvince.php",
                    data: {
                            term: request.term,  
                            country: $('input[name=country]:checked').val()    //Pass selected country data to php
                          },       
                    type: "POST",  // a jQuery ajax POST transmits in querystring format (key=value&key1=value1) in utf-8
                    dataType: "json",   //return data in json format                                                                                                                                                       
                    success: function( data )
                    {                                          
                        response(

after the response(   try the rest of the grep statement, but in the code I posted above the 'this_should_be_data' is a variable called data from the success function. Use that.

I don't know grep.  I don't know if this will work, but it moves you in the right direction of having code that will go get data from a remote php manager and deliver it to grep with a consistent name.  If you can't get it working, try reposting as a new question with your new code, and maybe one of the 'pros' can help you.

I would handle this completely on the php side. set the source equal to the php file, then on the php side do the accent folding and query the database with both the original term and the normalized term.

-- Kevin

Another way to do it is to get all your data into the utf-8 character set, set your web page to utf-8, set your server to operate in utf-8, and use POST in your jQuery ajax.  With everything in utf-8, you will get umlaut responses from your server when you type u, etc. etc.  I did that and it works.  It takes a while to learn all the character set stuff, though.

Hi,

Its good to hear you found a path to move forward on.

As you may know, it will work for users that type correctly.  If they type in lower case, as some do, there may be problems, but those can be worked later.  If you later come back and set everything in the system to use utf-8 characters, a user can type  " i ", and the selections for  " Í " will appear.