A problem with passing Japanese characters(UTF-8) via json_encode

Question

I\'m having a trouble transferring Japanese characters from PHP to JavaScript via json_encode.

Here is the raw data read from csv file.

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Answer 1

I found that the problem was PHP fgetcsv() function not being able to recognize the characters in EUC-JP. Apparently, fgetcsv() uses the system locale setting to make assumptions about character encoding. I have added below line before doing fgetcsv() as the referenced example shows(but in a reversed way), and it fixed the problem!

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ja_JP.EUC-JP');