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

As of PHP 5.4.0:

Convert your strings in your array to into utf-8 using utf8_encode($str) function.

Then json_encode with JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE option:

$arr = json_encode($array, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);