Values in UTF-8 being encoded as NULL in JSON

Question

I have a set of keywords that are passed through via JSON from a DB (encoded UTF-8), some of which may have special characters like é, è, ç, etc. This is used as part of an auto

Answer 1

I tried your code sample like this

[~]> cat utf.php 
 php utf.php 
["Coffee","Cappuccino","Caf\u00e9"]
[~]>

Based on that I would say that if the source data is really UTF-8, then json_encode works just fine. If its not, then thats where you get null. Why its not, I cannot tell based on this information.