PHP unserialize fails with non-encoded characters?

Question

$ser = \'a:2:{i:0;s:5:\"héllö\";i:1;s:5:\"wörld\";}\'; // fails
$ser2 = \'a:2:{i:0;s:5:\"hello\";i:1;s:5:\"world\";}\'; // works
$out = unserialize($ser);
$out2 = un         


        

Answer 1

This solution worked for me:

$unserialized = unserialize(utf8_encode($st));