searching for umlauts ( like äöü...) doesnt bring any result

because the function zen_parse_search_string converts the searchString to lower, the search fails because the php-function strtolower is not utf8 safe

solution:

1.removing strtolower; mysql is not case sensitive
PHP Code:
// Parse search string into indivual objects
function zen_parse_search_string($search_str '', &$objects) {
    
$search_str trim(($search_str)); 
2.
PHP Code:
// Parse search string into indivual objects
  
function zen_parse_search_string($search_str '', &$objects) {
    
$search_str trim(strtolower_utf8($search_str));
..........
function 
strtolower_utf8($inputString) {
    
// http://de.php.net/manual/de/function.strtolower.php#78560
    
$outputString    utf8_decode($inputString);
    
$outputString    strtolower($outputString);
    
$outputString    utf8_encode($outputString);
    return 
$outputString;