Encoding/Decoding issues

[tua]

<?php

    $data = ["name" => utf8_encode("Lutz Übelgönner"), "street" => utf8_encode("Änderärger Straße 18")];
    //$data = ["name" => "Bob Smith", "street" => "19 Main Street"];
    $jdata = json_encode($data, JSON_ERROR_UTF8);
    print $jdata;

?>

I do (see code above) in order to be able to json_encode, which gives me:

 

{"name":"Lutz \u00dcbelg\u00f6nner","street":"\u00c4nder\u00e4rger Stra\u00dfe 18"}

 

How do I turn this into something that will make Germans happy?

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[Jacques1]

So what do you not like? The \u escape sequences? JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE

 

However, this is an entirely unnecessary step, because JSON is just an intermediary data format. As soon as you parse it, you'll get human-readable text.

Edited August 3, 2016 by Jacques1

[requinix]

By learning what those \us mean and thereby understanding that they're supposed/allowed to be there? And by saving your file in UTF-8 format and getting rid of those calls to utf8_encode.

 

And by dropping the JSON_ERROR_UTF8. If you look at the documentation you'll see it's not one of the allowed options. And really, it has "error" right there in the name: does that sound right?