json_encode return encoded utf-8 string

Question

on shared apache server which host my website I can not set default server settings to utf-8

and in PHP json_encode return encoded utf-8 string from text like: مرتضی to : \u0645\u0631\u062a\u0636\u06cc

how can I prevent this or how return it back to original text encoding?

Answer 1

Just use the JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE flag:

echo json_encode($str, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);