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Autocomplete handles Korean, or any other set of characters, when your entire software system is configured correctly for the character set used by your users.  The commonly used character set that represents all alphabets is utf-8.  When all of your software (including plug-ins, server utility modules, database, etc.) is configured to use utf-8, the problem you mention will go away.

Thank you for reply, I checked configurations of my entire software and correctly character set is utf-8.

In your HTML, try

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

At the top of your CSS page, put

@charset "UTF-8";

Your text editor should be set to use utf-8

Check the settings in your Apache web server for utf-8.

If you use PHP, it takes quite a bit of fiddling to get it properly configured to utf-8.

Think through every piece of software that touches your code flow in the example you posted above. Every one of those software components has to be configured to utf-8. The one that is not,  wrecks the characters.

The problem is not in Autocomplete. Trust me on this.

Here's another one.  If you are using a form, put this attribute in the form tag.

accept-charset = "utf-8"

I'm using ASP.NET, and setting Utf-8 mode in web.config, but still it doesn't work.

Here is a partial test of your code with the Korean characters in a jsfiddle sandbox. Go there and type in the character. I don't know how to do that.

http://jsfiddle.net/468uj/

When I copy paste the character, Autocomplete works. It works with either jQuery1.8.3 or 1.9.1 paired with jQueryUI 1.9.2.

If you type in the character and it works, then the problem is in the configuration or capabilities of the software on your computer.

As i posted, it works fine when i copied pasted the character in my system.

I found one thing that it work fine When I type 가 and press right arrow and down arrow.

idevsk,
I was unable to file an "official" UI bug report because of some quirk in how that system works, but I posted the problem at the UI Development forum.

I hope we get a response.

idevsk,

After think about this a bit, I am confused about the situation you describe with the cursor to the left and to the right of the character. I also don't know what 'completion guarantor' and 'assistant producer' mean for characters.

Let me suggest that you make another post to describe, in detail, how a native speaking and writing Korean would enter the words (with appropriate attention to where the cursor is, if that makes a difference), and then describe the results of Autocomplete.  I have a sense that one source of confusion here is that English (left to right writing) people are viewing this one way, and Korean (right to left writing) people enter the characters and view them differently.  Maybe or maybe not, but lets be very clear about how a Korean would use it.

idevsk,

Here is the response from Scott Gonzales, the developer in charge of Autocomplete. His response is too technical for me to fully understand, but the idea I took out of it is that different browsers behave differently, so he thinks there is no solution.   However, if you click on the link to the bug status report and read to the bottom, you will find, yet another workaround that someone posted. Maybe it will help you also.

https://forum.jquery.com/topic/autocomplete-bug-in-handling-korean-characters

If you need to, you can post at the above link, and Scott will get your ideas.