Re: json_encode() behavior and the browser

It can have something to do with your browser codification (UTF8, ISO-8859-???). -- João Cândido de Souza Neto "Christoph Boget" <cboget@hotmail.com> escreveu na mensagem news:AANLkTi=45-HEtO2MYhQ116GV6bfxvDBA_yXfzJNqKVV8@mail.gmail.com... > I'm curious if the behavior of json_encode() is influenced by the > browser at all. I have a page that returns search results. If I > access the page and perform a search using Chrome, the following error > shows up in the log: > > PHP Warning: json_encode() [<a > href='function.json-encode'>function.json-encode</a>]: Invalid UTF-8 > sequence in argument in [PAGE] on line [LINE] > > If I access the page and perform a search, the exact same search using > the exact same parameters, using Firefox then I get the expected > results. When I var_dump() the return value of json_encode(), I see > that it is a null in the case where I accessed using chrome but the > expected string in the case where I accessed using firefox. In both > cases, the input array is identical. > > Given the identical input and different output, the only thing I can > figure is that the headers sent to the server as part of the request > figure in to how json_encode() behaves. Is that the case? Or am I > barking up the wrong tree? > > To be clear, I'm not talking about how the browser ultimately handles > the json encoded data. I know there can be issues with that. I'm > talking about the process before the data is even shipped to the > browser -- about how json_encode() behaves when executed as part of > the PHP script. > > thnx, > Christoph