PHP json_encode json_decode UTF-8

This is an encoding issue. It looks like at some point, the data gets represented as ISO-8859-1.

Every part of your process needs to be UTF-8 encoded.

• The database connection

• The database tables

• Your PHP file (if you are using special characters inside that file as shown in your example above)

• The content-type headers that you output

json utf8 encode and decode:

json_encode($data, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)

json_decode($json, false, 512, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)

force utf8 might be helpfull too: http://pastebin.com/2XKqYU49