PHP Mysql Json encode and Arabic language [duplicate] - php

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Reference: Why are my "special" Unicode characters encoded weird using json_encode?
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Any way to return PHP json_encode with encode UTF-8 and not Unicode?
$arr=array('a'=>'á');
echo json_encode($arr);
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');and $arr=array_map('utf8_encode',$arr); does not fix it.
Result: {"a":"\u00e1"}
Expected result: {"a":"á"}

Answer 1

{"a":"\u00e1"} and {"a":"á"} are different ways to write the same JSON document; The JSON decoder will decode the unicode escape.
In php 5.4+, php's json_encode does have the JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE option for plain output. On older php versions, you can roll out your own JSON encoder that does not encode non-ASCII characters, or use Pear's JSON encoder and remove line 349 to 433.

Answer 2

I resolved my problem doing this:
The .php file is encoded to ANSI. In this file is the function to create the .json file.
I use json_encode($array, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE) to encode the data;
The result is a .json file encoded to ANSI as UTF-8.

Answer 3

This function found here, works fine for me
function jsonRemoveUnicodeSequences($struct) {
return preg_replace("/\\\\u([a-f0-9]{4})/e", "iconv('UCS-4LE','UTF-8',pack('V', hexdec('U$1')))", json_encode($struct));
}

Answer 4

Use JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE inside json_encode() if your php version >=5.4.

Answer 5

just use this,
utf8_encode($string);
you've to replace your $arr with $string.
I think it will work...try this.