On 04/02/2012 06:35 PM, Charlie Somerville wrote: > Hi internals, > > I've created a pull request (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/33) that > changes json_encode to fall back to ASCII for strings that are not valid > UTF-8. > > I ran into an issue in a production application involving PayPal IPN > callbacks (which are sent encoded as windows-1252) and json_encode(). If > there was an accented character present in the data, json_encode() would fail > to encode the string and serialize it as 'null'. > > I've modified the behaviour of the underlying json_escape_string() > implementation to attempt to encode strings anyway while still producing a > warning.
JSON with non-Unicode strings is no longer JSON. The spec is explicit that all strings must be Unicode. The default encoding is UTF-8, but it could be UTF-16/32 as well. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
