How can I save a json-encoded string with international characters to the databse and then parse the decoded string in the browser?
<?php
$string = "très agréable";
// to the database
$j_encoded = json_encode(utf8_encode($string));
// get from Database
$j_decoded = json_decode($j_encoded);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">
<?= $j_decoded ?>
</html>