[TYPO3-english] indexed_search with non western language

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Hello,

I made a website with Amharic (Ethiopia) and English. All is based on 
the Introductionpackage 4.4.4 with an own template. I have it local on 
Windows and live on a Suse 11 Rootserver.

indexed search is not working with Amharic script.
In the indexing page the amharic script is not coded in the right way, 
however in DB check I can properly search in Amharic with the right coding.
Database is set to unicode general charset utf-8
[BE][forceCharset] = utf-8

Is there some other issue related to the search?

thanks Herbert