Values in UTF-8 being encoded as NULL in JSON

Question

I have a set of keywords that are passed through via JSON from a DB (encoded UTF-8), some of which may have special characters like é, è, ç, etc. This is used as part of an auto

Answer 1

My solution to encode utf8 data was :

$jsonArray = addslashes(json_encode($array, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT|JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE))