From: fernando at consultorpc dot com Operating system: Linux/Mac OSX Leopard PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: JSON related Bug description: Json_encode returns null for certain strings
Description: ------------ At my specific case, if a string contains an Euro symbol ( ), json_encode will return null for that string. It might also happens with other special characters. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $array = array( 'name' => htmlentities( 'My euro symbol .' ) ); var_dump( $array ); var_dump( json_encode( $array ) ); Expected result: ---------------- array(1) { ["name"]=> string(29) "My euro symbol €." } string(13) "{"name":"My euro symbol €."}" Actual result: -------------- array(1) { ["name"]=> string(29) "My euro symbol â?¬." } string(13) "{"name":null}" -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49588&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49588&r=mysqlcfg