Search Custom Fields

[semen_123]

In the settings of the search plugin in Virtuemart there is a checkbox "Search Custom Fields". Custom field_params data is written to the database using json_encode. The search for Cyrillic characters is not possible in this case. How to fix the situation?

[hazael]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4534410/how-to-encode-cyrillic-in-mysql