PHP json_encode json_decode UTF-8

Question

How can I save a json-encoded string with international characters to the databse and then parse the decoded string in the browser?

Answer 1

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