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Re: json and non UTF8 [message #172209 is a reply to message #172208]

Fri, 04 February 2011 11:31

alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX
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El 04/02/2011 11:53, Luuk escribió/wrote:
> On 04-02-11 01:40, Jeff Thies wrote:
>> On 2/3/2011 10:07 AM, Luuk wrote:
>>> On 03-02-11 15:43, Jeff Thies wrote:
>>>> I've got some text that contains some odd characters that json_encode
>>>> is returning nulls on. I'd like to either fix the characters, get rid of
>>>> them or anything that doesn't give me a null.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> Can you give more detail on this 'odd characters'?
>>> Maybe show them here with bin2hex()?
>>> i.e. print bin2hex('abcdef');
>>> 616263646566
>>
>> I was trying to json_encode this and it choked on the bullet.
>>
>> Project Feasibility& Development
>> •Client and end user needs assessment
>>>
>>> And in the subject you state 'non UTF8'
>>> In the docs of 'json_encode' i read:
>>> "This function only works with UTF-8 encoded data"
>>
>> Yeah, that is what I noticed too. It took me a couple hours to figure
>> it out!
>
> You could try to convert this text from UTF-8 to another character-set
>
> print (json_encode(iconv('UTF-8', \"ISO-8859-15//IGNORE\", '•Client')));
>
> this prints "Client";

I admit I'm lost in the thread and I'm not really sure about what the
problem is but JSON _has_ to be Unicode. It's by design:

«A string is a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters, wrapped in
double quotes, using backslash escapes.»

http://www.json.org/

And, as already mentioned, json_encode() needs UTF-8 input data:

http://php.net/json_encode

If you need ISO-8859-15 at either end, you need to make a conversion
from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 *before* calling json_encode() and/or a
conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15 *after* json_decode().

In any case, every time I hear the expression "odd characters" I suspect
that the character set of data is simply unknown. The first step is to
learn which one it is.

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		json and non UTF8 By: Jeff Thies on Thu, 03 February 2011 14:43
		Re: json and non UTF8 By: Luuk on Thu, 03 February 2011 15:07
		Re: json and non UTF8 By: Jeff Thies on Fri, 04 February 2011 00:40
		Re: json and non UTF8 By: Luuk on Fri, 04 February 2011 10:53
		Re: json and non UTF8 By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Fri, 04 February 2011 11:31
		Re: json and non UTF8 By: Luuk on Fri, 04 February 2011 11:52
		Re: json and non UTF8 By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 04 February 2011 14:25
		Re: json and non UTF8 By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Thu, 03 February 2011 15:08

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