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

Old question, but figured I'd put this here in case someone needs to log data using json_encode but keep the data untouched, intact for inspection later.

You can encode the data raw using base64_encode, then it will work with json_encode. Later after running json_decode, you can decode the string with base64_decode, you'll get the original data unmodified.