JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK and phone numbers

Question

Our PHP API outputs results using json_encode with JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK enabled, which is important for financial figures, binary values etc.. but we have recently introduced

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I had a similar problem in that I have international phone numbers starting with a + symbol. I used urlencode on my phone number string to over come the issue:

$phone = urlencode( $phone );