hi tony,

first i would like to say you're doing a really good work with this component. It's really a pleasure to work with it.

I've a really simple bug which is that the locale file for french doesn't have the same codepage / encoding as the others. It's UTF-8 for this file and ANSI for the other.

so could you change this codepage or if all js files in jqgrid have to be UTF-8 you've to set a charset in your js inclusion in the jquery.jqgrid.js file