How to get json_encode() to work with ISO-8859-1 (åäö)

Question

json_encode() wont work for me when I\'m using åäö. Why? And how can I get it to work?

The php:

echo json_encode($arr);
         


        

Answer 1

It says in the json_encode() documentation:

This function only works with UTF-8 encoded data.

You should convert it to utf-8 with iconv or mbstring first.