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

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.

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