I have a PHP script that deals with a wide variety of languages. Unfortunately, whenever I try to use json_encode
, any Unicode output is converted to hexadecimal entities. Is this the expected behavior? Is there any way to convert the output to UTF-8 characters?
Here's an example of what I'm seeing:
INPUT
echo $text;
OUTPUT
База данни грешка.
INPUT
json_encode($text);
OUTPUT
"\u0411\u0430\u0437\u0430 \u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u0438 \u0433\u0440\u0435\u0448\u043a\u0430."
Since PHP/5.4.0, there is an option called JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE
. Check it out:
https://php.net/function.json-encode
Therefore you should try:
json_encode( $text, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE );