Decode Greek characters in JSON PHP

Anonymous User 4411 20 Jun 2013

Hi Expert,
I have an XML document that contains greek characters and works perfectly. When I convert it to JSON using PHP the greek characters are being encoded.
      {"id":"101","name":"\u0398\u0397\u039a\u0395\u03a3 \u0397\/\u03a5"}
What I do is: Write xml to a file and then read the file and convert it to JSON
      $handle = fopen("xml_cat.xml","w+");
      fwrite($handle, $xml);
      $sxml = simplexml_load_file('xml_cat.xml');
      echo json_encode($sxml);
How can I get greek characters back?
Any help on above is really appreciated.

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Updated 20 Jun 2013

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Sumit Kesarwani 20 Jun 2013

Hi Brad,

Any client which can properly decode the JSON format will get the original characters back. "\uXXXX" is a perfectly valid transport encoding for arbitrary characters in the JSON format. You don't need to do anything special, you just need to decode the JSON properly; something you're doing anyway when working with JSON.

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