Re: json and non UTF8

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Date	Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:53:12 +0100
From	Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan>
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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";

-- 
Luuk

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Re: json and non UTF8 Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2011-02-03 16:07 +0100
  Re: json and non UTF8 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-02-04 15:25 +0100
  Re: json and non UTF8 Jeff Thies <jeff_thies@att.net> - 2011-02-03 19:40 -0500
    Re: json and non UTF8 "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 12:31 +0100
      Re: json and non UTF8 Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2011-02-04 12:52 +0100
    Re: json and non UTF8 Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2011-02-04 11:53 +0100

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