When I encode an array to JSON I get "u00e1" instead of á.
How could I solve the character encoding?
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How do you encode your array and how do you process that encoded array?Gumbo– Gumbo2010-03-12 18:50:28 +00:00Commented Mar 12, 2010 at 18:50
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You might want to add which language (PHP/Python/ASP/...) you're using and where your input is coming from (database/HTTP-submitted form/...)janmoesen– janmoesen2010-03-12 19:36:57 +00:00Commented Mar 12, 2010 at 19:36
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Your input data is not Unicode. 0xE1 is legacy latin1/ISO-8859-*/Windows-1252 for á. \u00e1 is the JSON/JavaScript to encode that. JSON must use a Unicode encoding.
Solve it by either fixing your input or converting it using something like iconv.
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The browser's default encoding is probably Unicode UTF-8. Try
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">.
answered Mar 12, 2010 at 18:49
Pierre-Antoine LaFayette
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One problem can be if you check the response only (the response is only a text but the JSON must be an object).
You have to parse the response text to be a javascript object first (JSON.parse in javascript) and after that the characters will become the same as on the server side.
Example: On the server in the php code:
$myString = "árvízrtűrő tükörfúrógép";
echo json_encode($myString); //this sends the encoded string via a protocol that maybe can handle only ascii characters, so the result on the client side is:
On the client side
alert(response); //check the text sent by the php
output: "\u00e1rv\u00edzrt\u0171r\u0151 t\u00fck\u00f6rf\u00far\u00f3g\u00e9p"
Make a js object from the respopnse
parsedResponse = JSON.parse(response);
alert(parsedResponse);
output: "árvízrtűrő tükörfúrógép"
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add this to the head of html to solve this.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
