Making Foreign Language Characters AJAX Safe

Asked Dec 09 '15 at 08:04

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$sampleText = "Episode 8 - Dansk dokumentarserie. Jørgen og John drar ut for å";

I need to convert it to json and encode it in a way to make it AJAX safe.

I tried following encoding :

//$name = htmlentities(utf8_encode($sampleText), ENT_QUOTES);
//$name = htmlentities($sampleText, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
//$name = htmlentities(utf8_encode($sampleText), ENT_COMPAT);

Sometimes it works but in some cases I get \. which makes json invalid.

Example : Gäster är kulturminster Alice \. Bah Kuhnke och komikern William Spetz.Kategori: TalkShow \..

Invalid JSON due to string \. :

[{"name" : "Humortalkshow."}, 
 {"name" : "Temat 2013 var \."}, 
 {"name" : "Talkshow \."}]

Could you please help me encode the foreign characters in a proper way.

edited Dec 09 '15 at 08:26

asked Dec 09 '15 at 08:04

Kunwarbir S.

Just switch to UTF-8 and use the built-in `json_encode()` function. – Álvaro González Dec 09 '15 at 08:31
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@ÁlvaroGonzález You mean, I simply use `utf8_encode($sampleText)` ? – Kunwarbir S. Dec 09 '15 at 08:35
Nope, that's the convoluted way to do it. If you use UTF-8 everywhere you don't need to convert back and forth. In 2015, the only reason to use any other encoding is having to support a legacy project that cannot be upgraded. – Álvaro González Dec 09 '15 at 08:52
Can you please write a sample code ? – Kunwarbir S. Dec 09 '15 at 09:01

Making Foreign Language Characters AJAX Safe

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