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ID: 49588 Comment by: gudjonj at gmail dot com Reported by: fernando at consultorpc dot com Summary: json_encode returns null for certain strings Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: JSON related Operating System: Linux/Mac OSX Leopard PHP Version: 5.3.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: To return null if encoding is incorrect makes no sense. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-12-27 23:20:08] gtrujillos at gmail dot com A useful solution: http://efreedom.com/Question/1-2790027/UTF-Character-Encoding-Battles-Json-Encode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-12-27 23:19:58] gtrujillos at gmail dot com A use full solution: http://efreedom.com/Question/1-2790027/UTF-Character-Encoding-Battles-Json-Encode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-04-07 13:21:58] pcdinh at gmail dot com Hi arievanziel, In your case, the character 'é' may be encoded in 'latin1'. If you save the code in a UTF-8 encoded file you will find that the result will be é"é" as expected ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-04-01 15:13:57] arievanziel at gmail dot com json_encode returns null for a string with é or (for example) ä in it. Reproduce code: $test = "é"; echo $test; echo json_encode($test); A possible workaround could be to use (especially if you will use the json_encode string as html output): $test = "é"; $test = htmlentities($test, UTF-8); echo $test; echo json_encode($test); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-18 13:29:20] scott...@php.net It only appears of display_errors is on though with 5.3.1+ you can also detect it by looking at json_last_error() ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49588 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49588&edit=1