Google suggest API does not work with Chinese locale

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Published on 2009-11-12T15:26:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 3:40 UTC
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Hi, everyone!

I have a problem with Google suggest API when using Chinese locale. I am picking Chinese hieroglyphs at random and use the REST API to retrieve suggestions. Unfortunately, Google always return an empty list of suggestions (I am completely sure, that I convert my request in utf-8, and it is working fine with other languages, ex. Russian):

Sample request:

http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?qu=%E9%80%9F

Google answer:

window.google.ac.h(["?",[]])

Does anyone know how to retrieve suggestions for Chinese locale? Maybe I am missing some flags or something? Maybe there is an official document from Google, saying that Chinese is not supported? And are there any people from China, using Google toolbar? Does it really work? I'd appreciate any help!

If it matters, I am writing a simple WinAPI application, using C++...

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