phputf-8json

PHP json_encode json_decode UTF-8

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

<?php           
    $string = "très agréable";  
    // to the database 
    $j_encoded = json_encode(utf8_encode($string)); 
    // get from Database 
    $j_decoded = json_decode($j_encoded); 
?>    
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">
    <?= $j_decoded ?>
</html>
Solution

  • 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.