json_encode is returning NULL?

Question

For some reason the item \"description\" returns NULL with the following code:

Answer 1

For anyone using PDO, the solution is similar to ntd's answer.

From the PHP PDO::__construct page, as a comment from the user Kiipa at live dot com:

To get UTF-8 charset you can specify that in the DSN.

$link = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=DB;charset=UTF8");