Hello,

Please confirm if you are using mssqlnative php extension to connect sql server.
This extension supports utf8 and work smooth.

e.g.
$db_conf = array();
$db_conf["type"] = "mssqlnative";
$db_conf["server"] = "(local)sqlexpress"; // ip:port
$db_conf["user"] = null;
$db_conf["password"] = null;
$db_conf["database"] = "master";

hi, what if im not using nativemssql ? I use mssql and i cannot render data with non english characters. For example \”Ñ\”…. the render is not working in this cases.

Logging answer for others:

Try following:
Edit lib/inc/jqgrid_dist.php and Search+replace:

$responce->rows[] = $row;

With:

$responce->rows[] = array_utf8_encode_recursive($row);

It should do manual encode of each data array item, before sending to JS.