Escaping JSON apostrophe before PHP's json_encode truncates?

Question

I have a field in a MySQL database (utf8_general_ci) that contains a curly (smart?) apostrophe: Owner’s...

This prints fine with no special handling if

Answer 1

Using PHP's utf8_encode() before my json_encode() did indeed stop the data from cutting off after the ’ but it also encoded it to \0092 which did not display (control character). When I used MySQL's SET NAMES utf8 before my query, I did not have to use utf8_encode() at all, and my json was encoded correctly with ’ mapping to \u2019, which displays nicely.

Thanks for the link @Pekka, it helped me narrow down the possibilities.