How to save a JSON as unescaped UTF-8 in PHP 5.3?

Question

I created a JSON file:

$json = array(
    \"Sample\" =>array(
        \"context\" => $context,
        \"date\"    => $date
    )
);

$url= \"sample         


        

Answer 1

You can use the mbstring approach:

Try like this:

fwrite($myfile, mb_convert_encoding(json_encode($json), "UTF-8"));