Hey there. First of all thanks for this great component . You have saved me days of troubleshooting .

I have recently implemented the component in a Visualforce page where I'm using it as a search field of accounts that will relate with a custom Object.
Even though the accounts are found correctly and the master-detail relation is created once I hit save on the page, there are some accounts whose names have apostrophes(e.g L'estufe) but the component will fail to render it properly, the name will instead display as L'estufe.
I've tried to add the Arial Unicode MS font family in the style section of the component, also tried adding a custom css to the component and referencing it via the VF page, enabling a meta tag with the UTF-8 charset in the VF page, but still, no luck.

Any ideas of how could I render correctly special characters in the component field?

Best regards.

This seems to be a VERY useful component. However, I have a use case that requires the ability to auto-complete from an existing record OR all the user to input a completely new value. I am not wanting to return a record id, just a name from a predefined list. I already created a new custom object with two identical name fields, to enable the component to display/return simple text, but I have not figured out how to return a value if the name input does not already exist in the database. In other words, the target variable is not loaded unless a selection is made from the auto-complete list. Can you adjust the component to support selection AND free form text input?

Has anyone tried to use this in a Visual Workflow? I assume the challenge would be in getting the Flow to evaluate the Id for the item that was selected.

Before I try, it would be nice to know if anyone else has thought about this.