Character Encoding in JSON

[q_no]

Hi,

I have a PHP script in the background that returns JSON encoded strings for my grid. I'm using the pear class Services_JSON (http://mike.teczno.com/JSON/JSON.phps) which encodes my UTF8 special chars (german umlauts) in this way: Schr\u00c3\u00b6der :s

In my grid all special chars are broken - all my script files are utf8, the server responses are utf8, the db collation.. quite everything.

I have a selfmade proxy class that retrieves the data from the server. Is it possible to decode the masked chars with javascript back to

[neongrau]

check in firebug what content-type the server sends to your browser:

should be s.th. like
Content-Type application/json; charset=utf-8
or
Content-Type text/html; charset=UTF-8

in the "Headers / Response Headers" tab

[q_no]

the json response is part of an XML document: Content-Type text/xml; charset="utf-8"



edit:

ok, problem solved. someone entered dump into my database and I believed everything would be ok there...sorry

[Meister_R]

same Problem here;

in contrast that the whole project is ISO-8859-1 coded :-(

so is there an easy way to get my '

[neongrau]

welcome to encoding hell,

basically "ISO-8859-1" has no support for german "umlauts".
your system is automatically falling back to "ISO-8859-15" or "windows-1252" which can have umlauts.

so you can try to force everything to one of those encodings (especially the content-type for XHRs), or if possible: try to do everything everywhere in UTF-8 (i know that's not always possible but it's the best solution i can think of).

[nd]

Hi,

I solved the problem for german umlauts with this PHP function:

[CODE]function json_umlaut($var){
if(is_array($var)){
foreach(array_keys($var) as $key){
$var[$key]=json_umlaut($var[$key]);
}
return $var;
}else{
$var=preg_replace("/

[u39kun]

I had a problem rendering european characters within GridPanel.
I solved this issue by doing this (we use Java):

response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

[davidrolli]

for PHP it's

require_once ('JSON/JSON.php'); // PEAR library 'Services_JSON', http://pear.php.net/package/Services_JSON
...
$json = new Services_JSON();

echo utf8_encode($json->encode($a_result));

[Levona]

What about right to left text encoding (like Hebrew/Arabic)?

The JSON seems to encode a sentence in right to left languages backwards (For example encoding "Hello world" (In Hebrew) returns "world Hello"). How can I prevent this from happening?