Why PHP script displaying /uXXXX characters instead of greek characters evenif I change character set?

Question

I have the following code:

/* change character set to utf8 */    
if (!mysqli_set_charset($con, "utf8")) 

{

printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", mysqli_error($con));

} else {

printf("Current character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($con));

}

// query the application data
$sql = "SELECT * FROM names";

$result = mysqli_query($con, $sql);

// an array to save the application data
$rows = array();

// iterate to query result and add every rows into array
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)) 
{

$rows[] = $row;
}


// close the database connection
mysqli_close($con);

// echo the application data in json format
echo json_encode($rows);

I try it on server http://blabla.gr/apps.php and I get \u0391\u03bd\u03c4\u03ce\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2 instead of Greek characters

How can i have them properly displayed as normal utf8 Greek characters.

Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through — Naruto, Jan 13 '15 at 15:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '15 at 16:33

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The json_encode function encodes Unicode characters using escape codes by default. You can use the JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE flag to leave them unescaped.

echo json_encode($rows, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

answered Jan 13 '15 at 16:33

Joni

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Why PHP script displaying /uXXXX characters instead of greek characters evenif I change character set?

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