PHP json_encode json_decode UTF-8

json utf8 encode and decode:

json_encode($data, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)

json_decode($json, false, 512, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)

force utf8 might be helpfull too: http://pastebin.com/2XKqYU49

This is an encoding issue. It looks like at some point, the data gets represented as ISO-8859-1.

Every part of your process needs to be UTF-8 encoded.

The database connection
The database tables
Your PHP file (if you are using special characters inside that file as shown in your example above)
The content-type headers that you output

  header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');

If your source-file is already utf8 then drop the utf8_* functions. php5 is storing strings as array of byte.

you should add a meta tag for encoding within the html AND you should add an http header which sets the transferencoding to utf-8.

<html>
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

and in php

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Try sending the UTF-8 Charset header:

<?php header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>

And the HTML meta:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

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