What does b“string” mean in dd() function?

Question

dd($result);

Result:

...
+description: \"عند...ترنت.\"    
+keywords: b\"°ó¨Ü¨ü¨ê...Ü°®\"
...

+keywords h

Answer 1

If you read: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/var_dumper.html (which is what Laravel is using) you can see:

So the answer is the string is not valid in UTF-8 (I am guessing b stands for binary).

Maybe check if you can detect the encoding if it's something else.