From the wiki you may need change the TinyMCE configuration to raw:
Searching for words containing characters like "å,ä,ö,Å,Ä,Ö" require to configure your editor to avoid entity encoding. With TinyMCE, for that, change the entity_encoding parameter from "named" to "raw" in the configuration tab and save again your documents.
Also here is a thread from the forums with a similar situation. http://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=26336.ne&i=1&page=2